There Are Only Three Things Worthwhile --

There Is No Morality By Instinct. There Is No Social Salvation In The End Without Taking Thought; Without Mastery Of Logic And Application Of Logic To Human Experience.

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.

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.

... When You Make It A Moral Necessity For The Young To Dabble In All The Subjects That The Books On The Top Shelf Are Written About, You Kill Two Very Large Birds With One Stone: You Satisfy Precious Curiosities, And You Make Them Believe That They Know As Much About Life As People Who Really Know Something. If College Boys Are Solemnly Advised To Listen To Lectures On Prostitution, They Will Listen; And Who Is To Blame If Some Time, In A Less Moral Moment, They Profit By Their Information?

We Put [young Children] Into Kindergarten Where Their Reasoning Powers Are Ruined; Or, If We Can Afford It, We Buy Montessori Outfits That Were Invented For Semi-imbeciles In Italian Slums; Or We Send Them To Outdoor Schools And Give Them Prizes For Sleeping.