The Principle Of Fashion Is . .

... The More We Recruit From Immigrants Who Bring No Personal Traditions With Them, The More America Is Going To Ignore The Things Of The Spirit. No One Whose Consuming Desire Is Either For Food Or For Motor-cars Is Going To Care About Culture, Or Even Know What It Is.

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.

Funny How People Despise Platitudes, When They Are Usually The Truest Thing Going. A Thing Has To Be Pretty True Before It Gets To Be A Platitude.

... If We Have A Dollar To Spend On Some Wild Excess, We Shall Spend It On A Book, Not On Asparagus Out Of Season.

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