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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rul...  
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.  
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewil...  
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of imm...  
Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the s...  
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a tra...  
How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' ...  
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of...  
I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contain...  
If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.  
In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can re...  
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.  
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal ex...  
Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as th...  
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the univers...  
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.  
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror ...  
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.  
When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one ...