There Are Inquiries Which Are A Sort

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.

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

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.

Each Man's Private Conscience Ought To Be A Nice Little Self-registering Thermometer: He Ought To Carry His Moral Code Incorruptibly And Explicitly Within Himself, And Not Care What The World Thinks. The Mass Of Human Beings, However, Are Not Made That Way; And Many People Have Been Saved From Crime Or Sin By The Simple Dislike Of Doing Things They Would Not Like To Confess.

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.