It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

The Good Quality Snob, or wearer of muted tweeds, cut almost exactly the same from year to year, often with a hat of the same material, [is] native to the Boston North Shore, the Chicago North Shore, the North Shore of Long Island, to Westchester County, the Philadelphia Main Line and the Peninsula area of San Francisco.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.