Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.

The principal cause of war is war itself.

The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.