Conventional Manners Are A Kind Of Literacy

I Have Always, Privately And Humbly, Thought It A Pity That So Good A Word [as Culture] Should Go Out Of The Best Vocabularies; For When You Lose An Abstract Term, You Are Apt To Lose The Thing It Stands For.

Simplicity Is An Acquired Taste. Mankind, Left Free, Instinctively Complicates Life.

There Are Inquiries Which Are A Sort Of Moral Burglary.

I Know Exaggerators Of Both Kinds: People Whose Lies Are Only Picturesque Adjectives, And People Whose Picturesque Adjectives Are Only Lies.

Originality Usually Amounts Only To Plagiarizing Something Unfamiliar.