Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.

What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?

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

When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism

Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.

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

If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows, it is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs. To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.