Someone Who Gossips Well Has A Reputation

Nominally A Great Age Of Scientific Inquiry, Ours Has Become An Age Of Superstition About The Infallibility Of Science; Of Almost Mystical Faith In Its Non-mystical Methods; Above All-which Perhaps Most Explains The Expert's Sovereignty-of External Verities; Of Traffic-cop Morality And Rabbit-test Truth.

Ours Is The Country Where, In Order To Sell Your Product, You Don't So Much Point Out Its Merits As You First Work Like Hell To Sell Yourself.

Humor Simultaneously Wounds And Heals, Indicts And Pardons, Diminishes And Enlarges; It Constitutes Inner Growth At The Expense Of Outer Gain, And Those Who Possess And Honestly Practice It Make Themselves More Through A Willingness To Make Themselves Less.

The Thrust Of Ambition Is, And Always Has Been, Great, But Among The Bright-eyed It Had Once A More Adventurous And Individualistic Air, A Much More Bracing Rivalry.

One Must Never Judge The Writer By The Man; But One May Fairly Judge The Man By The Writer.