The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Let all your thinks be thanks.

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith