He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.

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

Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.

His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.

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

In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.