Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.

You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.

The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called "patriotism" and "love of sport."