There Is No Joy So Great As

The Cheese And Wine Party Has The Form Of Friendship Without The Warmth And Devotion. It Is A Device Either For Getting Rid Of Social Obligations Hurriedly En Mass, Or For Making Overtures Towards More Serious Social Relationships, As In The Etiquette Of Whoring.

The Most Fatal Illusion Is The Settled Point Of View. Since Life Is Growth And Motion, A Fixed Point Of View Kills Anybody Who Has One.

Materialism Is Decadent And Degenerate Only If The Spirit Of The Nation Has Withered And If Individual People Are So Unimaginative That They Wallow In It.

In Every Age 'the Good Old Days' Were A Myth. No One Ever Thought They Were Good At The Time. For Every Age Has Consisted Of Crises That Seemed Intolerable To The People Who Lived Through Them.

New Yorkers Are Inclined To Assume It Will Never Rain, And Certainly Not On New Yorkers.