The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.
Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.
Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.
Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment.