The day that we've been fearing is upon us.
Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.
Down with boredom. It has to go.
People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently forget the long, unrelieved stretches of misery and boredom.
A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.
Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!
[On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table.
It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated.
You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style.
When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.