Society, By Insisting On Conventions, Has Merely

Funny How People Despise Platitudes, When They Are Usually The Truest Thing Going. A Thing Has To Be Pretty True Before It Gets To Be A Platitude.

The Very Notion Of Tabu Is One Of The Rightest Notions In The World. Better Any Old Tabu Than None, For A Man Cannot Be Said To Be"on The Side Of The Stars" At All, Unless He Makes Refusals.

We Put [young Children] Into Kindergarten Where Their Reasoning Powers Are Ruined; Or, If We Can Afford It, We Buy Montessori Outfits That Were Invented For Semi-imbeciles In Italian Slums; Or We Send Them To Outdoor Schools And Give Them Prizes For Sleeping.

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

Frenchwomen Could Not Dress Like Englishwomen Without Conviction Of Sin.