No Fashion Has Ever Been Created Expressly

... 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?

When The Temperamental And Unconventional People Are Not Mere Plagiarists Of Dead Eccentrics, They Lack, In Almost Every Case, Thehistoric Sense.

... 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.

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.

Democracy Always Makes For Materialism, Because The Only Kind Of Equality That You Can Guarantee To A Whole People Is, Broadly Speaking, Physical.