“Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life”

“Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable”

“Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it”

“The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come”

“The present condition of fame is merely fashion.”

“The automobile changed our dress, manners, social customs, vacation habits, the shape of our cities, consumer purchasing patterns, common tastes and positions in intercourse”