Simplicity Is An Acquired Taste. Mankind, Left

The Insidiousness Of Science Lies In Its Claim To Be Not A Subject, But A Method.

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

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.

... There Are Some Who, Believing That All Is For The Best In The Best Of Possible Worlds, And That To-morrow Is Necessarily Better Than To-day, May Think That If Culture Is A Good Thing We Shall Infallibly Be Found To Have More Of It That We Had A Generation Since; And That If We Can Be Shown Not To Have More Of It, It Can Be Shown Not To Be Worth Seeking.

Frenchwomen Could Not Dress Like Englishwomen Without Conviction Of Sin.