One Must Never Judge The Writer By

From The Failure Of The Humanist Tradition To Participate Fully Or To Act Decisively, Civilizations May Perhaps Crumble Or Perish At The Hands Of Barbarians. But Unless The Humanist Tradition Itself In Some Form Survives, There Can Really Be No Civilization At All.

Someone Who Gossips Well Has A Reputation For Being Good Company Or Even A Wit, Never For Being A Gossip.

This Is, I Think, Very Much The Age Of Anxiety, The Age Of The Neurosis, Because Along With So Much That Weighs On Our Minds There Is Perhaps Even More That Grates On Our Nerves.

We Might Define An Eccentric As A Man Who Is A Law Unto Himself, And A Crank As One Who, Having Determined What The Law Is, Insists On Laying It Down To Others.

It Is The Gossip Columnist's Business To Write About What Is None Of His Business.