... If We Have A Dollar To

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

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.

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.

Society, By Insisting On Conventions, Has Merely Insisted On Certain Convenient Signs By Which We May Know That A Man Is Considering, In Daily Life, The Comfort Of Other People.

The Great Mistake Of The Reformers Is To Believe That Life Begins And Ends With Health, And That Happiness Begins And Ends With A Full Stomach And The Power To Enjoy Physical Pleasures, Even Of The Finer Kind.