There Are Inquiries Which Are A Sort

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.

Social Distinctions Concern Themselves Ultimately With Whom You May And May Not Marry.

... 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.

The Very Notion Of Tabu Is One Of The Rightest Notions In The World. Better Any Old Tabu Than None, For A Man Cannot Be Said To Be"on The Side Of The Stars" At All, Unless He Makes Refusals.

One Of The Reasons, Surely, Why Women Have Been Credited With Less Perfect Veracity Than Men Is That The Burden Of Conventional Falsehood Falls Chiefly On Them.