It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.

Were it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door handle turn.

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.

When those of our army whose voices are likely to coo tell us that the day of sex antagonism is over and that henceforth we only have to advance hand in hand with the male, I do not believe it.