Conventional Manners Are A Kind Of Literacy

The Real Drawback To The Simple Life Is That It Is Not Simple. If You Are Living It, You Positively Can Do Nothing Else. There Is Not Time.

The Indiscreet Questioner - And By Indiscreet Questions I Mean Questions Which It Is Not Conceivably A Man's Duty Either To The Community Or To Any Individual To Answer - Is A Marauder, And There Is Every Excuse For Treating Him As Such.

Most Men Have Always Wanted As Much As They Could Get; And Possession Has Always Blunted The Fine Edge Of Their Altruism.

I Have Looked Warily At Anthropologists Ever Since The Day When I Went To Hear A Great Greek Scholar Lecture On The Iliad, And Listened For An Hour To Talk About Bull-roarers And Leopard-societies.

Civilization Is Merely An Advance In Taste: Accepting, All The Time, Nicer Things, And Rejecting Nasty Ones.