When The Temperamental And Unconventional People Are

Nothing Makes People So Worthy Of Compliments As Receiving Them. One Is More Delightful For Being Told One Is Delightful-just As One Is More Angry For Being Told One Is Angry.

Educational Legislation Nowadays Is Largely In The Hands Of Illiterate People, And The Illiterate Will Take Good Care That Their Illiteracy Is Not Made A Reproach On Them.

Each Man's Private Conscience Ought To Be A Nice Little Self-registering Thermometer: He Ought To Carry His Moral Code Incorruptibly And Explicitly Within Himself, And Not Care What The World Thinks. The Mass Of Human Beings, However, Are Not Made That Way; And Many People Have Been Saved From Crime Or Sin By The Simple Dislike Of Doing Things They Would Not Like To Confess.

... 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.

I Have Looked Warily At Anthropologists Ever Since The Day When I Went To Hear A Great Greek Scholar Lecture On The Iliad, And Listened For An Hour To Talk About Bull-roarers And Leopard-societies.