What Passes For An Original Opinion Is,

No Convention Gets To Be A Convention At All Except By Grace Of A Lot Of Clever And Powerful People First Inventing It, And Then Imposing It On Others. You Can Be Pretty Sure, If You Are Strictly Conventional, That You Are Following Genius--a Long Way Off. And Unless You Are A Genius Yourself, That Is A Good Thing To Do.

What Passes For An Original Opinion Is, Generally, Merely An Original Phrase. Old Lamps For New - Yes; But It Is Always The Same Oil In The Lamp.

If You Are Perfectly Willing To Shock An Individual Verbally, The Next Thing You Will Be Doing Is To Shock Him Practically.

... It Is A Great Mistake To Confuse Conventionality With Simplicity ... It Takes A Good Deal Of Intelligence And A Great Many Inhibitions To Follow A Social Code.

There Are Inquiries Which Are A Sort Of Moral Burglary.