No One In This Country

Earnest People Are Often People Who Habitually Look On The Serious Side Of Things That Have No Serious Side.

No One Is Fit To Judge A Book Until He Has Rounded Cape Horn In A Sailing Vessel, Until He Has Bumped Into Two Or Three Icebergs, Until He Has Been Lost In The Sands Of The Desert, Until He Has Spent A Few Years In The House Of The Dead.

Never Forget That It Is We New Yorkers And New Englanders Who Have The Monopoly Of Whatever Oxygen There Is In The American Continent.

A Man Who Has The Courage Of His Platitudes Is Always A Successful Man. The Instructed Man Is Ashamed To Pronounce In An Orphic Manner What Everybody Knows, And Because He Is Silent People Think He Is Making Fun Of Them. They Like A Man Who Expresses Their Own Superficial Thoughts In A Manner That Appears To Be Profound. This Enables Them To Feel That They Are Themselves Profound.

People Of Small Calibre Are Always Carping. How Affected So-and-so Is! Don't You Think He Is Silly? He Was Certainly Quite Mistaken About This Or That. They Are Bent On Showing Their Own Superiority, Their Knowledge Or Their Prowess Or Good Breeding.