Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Vulgar and obscene the papers run rumors daily about people in show business tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

You could say in a vulgar Freudian way that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.