It Is Not Permissible To Lie Merely

... 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?

Ignorance Of What Real Learning Is, And A Consequent Suspicion Of It; Materialism, And A Consequent Intellectual Laxity, Both Of These Have Done Destructive Work In The Colleges.

No Fashion Has Ever Been Created Expressly For The Lean Purse Or For The Fat Woman: The Dressmaker's Ideal Is The Thin Millionaires.

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.

Most Men Have Always Wanted As Much As They Could Get; And Possession Has Always Blunted The Fine Edge Of Their Altruism.