Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.
Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.
In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
