What Are These Unheard Of Sins You

Think How Much Better It Is To Criticize Conventional Customs If You Yourself Live Up To Them, Scrupulously.

I Have For Myself No Conceivable Complaint To Make, And Yet For American Literature In General, And Its Standing In A Country Where Industrialism And Finance And Science Flourish And The Only Arts That Are Vital And Respected Are Architecture And The Film, I Have A Considerable Complaint.

Unhappy Women Are Given To Protecting Their Sensitiveness By Cynical Gossip, By Whining, By High-church And New-thought Religions, Or By A Fog Of Vagueness.

It Has Not Yet Been Recorded That Any Human Being Has Gained A Very Large Or Permanent Contentment From Meditation Upon The Fact That He Is Better Off Than Others.

Except For Half A Dozen In Each Town The Citizens Are Proud Of That Achievement Of Ignorance Which Is So Easy To Come By. To Be 'intellectual' Or 'artistic' Or, In Their Own Word, To Be 'highbrow,' Is To Be Priggish And Of Dubious Virtue.