Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice

I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.

You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the moment we have it we spend it, sometimes well, sometimes ill, but we spend it. Money is nothing to us; it's merely the symbol of success. We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to think that we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.