The Indiscreet Questioner - And By Indiscreet

The Real Drawback To The Simple Life Is That It Is Not Simple. If You Are Living It, You Positively Can Do Nothing Else. There Is Not Time.

All Violations Of Essential Privacy Are Brutalizing.

It Is Not Strange That Some Of Our Revoltes Preach Trial Marriage: For The Only Safe Way To Marry Them At All Would Be On Trial. Until You Had Definitely Experienced All The Human Situations With Them, You Would Have No Means Of Knowing How, In Any Given Situation, They Would Behave. They Might Conform About Evening-dress, And Throw Plates Between Courses; They Might Be Charming To Your Friends, And Ask The Waiter To Sit Down And Finish Dinner With You. Or They Might In All Things, Little And Big, Be Irreproachable. The Point Is That You Would Never Know.

You Can Bear Anything If It Is Not Your Fault.

... The More We Recruit From Immigrants Who Bring No Personal Traditions With Them, The More America Is Going To Ignore The Things Of The Spirit. No One Whose Consuming Desire Is Either For Food Or For Motor-cars Is Going To Care About Culture, Or Even Know What It Is.