The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.

Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness.

A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we "can't bear to throw away.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.