February 8, 2026

The main advantage of being famous is that when you bore people at dinner they think it is their fault.

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. In other words, people will always say and do what their neighbours say and do, no matter what the law allows or forbids or has nothing to say on a subject.

There is in most Americans some spark of idealism, which can be fanned into a flame.