Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.

The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.

Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.

Architecture may be frozen music, but it melts.

Although very few people are actually called upon to live in palaces a very large number are unwilling to admit the fact.

A household where a total unawareness of the world of ideas not only existed but was regarded as a matter for congratulation.