Social Distinctions Concern Themselves Ultimately With Whom

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

When The Temperamental And Unconventional People Are Not Mere Plagiarists Of Dead Eccentrics, They Lack, In Almost Every Case, Thehistoric Sense.

When Did The Word 'temperament' Come Into Fashion With Us? Perhaps It Came In When We Discovered That Artists Were Human Beings.

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

No Convention Gets To Be A Convention At All Except By Grace Of A Lot Of Clever And Powerful People First Inventing It, And Then Imposing It On Others. You Can Be Pretty Sure, If You Are Strictly Conventional, That You Are Following Genius--a Long Way Off. And Unless You Are A Genius Yourself, That Is A Good Thing To Do.