There Is No Morality By Instinct. There

... 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?

I Have Always, Privately And Humbly, Thought It A Pity That So Good A Word [as Culture] Should Go Out Of The Best Vocabularies; For When You Lose An Abstract Term, You Are Apt To Lose The Thing It Stands For.

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.

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.

... If A Person Is To Be Unconventional, He Must Be Amusing Or He Is Intolerable: For, In The Nature Of The Case, He Guarantees You Nothing But Amusement. He Does Not Guarantee You Any Of The Little Amenities By Which Society Has Assured Itself That, If It Must Go To Sleep, It Will At Least Sleep In A Comfortable Chair.