"The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American …"

"One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well."

"On a very rough-and-ready basis we might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one w…"

"There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to…"

"The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertisi…"

"The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination."

"In art there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts."

"Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs."

"Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it."

"Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything."