One Could Not Stay A Month Without

If It Were Worth While To Argue A Paradox, One Might Maintain That Nature Regards The Female As The Essential, The Male As The Superfluity Of Her World. Perhaps The Best Starting-point For Study Of The Virgin Would Be A Practical Acquaintance With Bees, And Especially With Queen Bees.

Modern Politics Is, At Bottom, A Struggle Not Of Men But Of Forces.

Every Syllable That Can Be Struck Out Is Pure Profit, And Every Page That Can Be Economised Is A Five-per-cent Dividend. Nature Rebels Against This Rule; The Flesh Is Weak, And Shrinks From The Scissors; I Groan In Retrospect Over The Weak.

From Earliest Childhood The Boy Was Accustomed To Feel That, For Him, Life Was Double. Winter And Summer, Town And Country, Law And Liberty, Were Hostile, And The Man Who Pretended They Were Not, Was In His Eyes A Schoolmaster -- That Is, A Man Employed To Tell Lies To Little Boys.

As For America, It Is The Ideal Fruit Of All Your Youthful Hopes And Reforms. Everybody Is Fairly Decent, Respectable, Domestic, Bourgeois, Middle-class, And Tiresome. There Is Absolutely Nothing To Revile Except That It's A Bore.