When The Temperamental And Unconventional People Are

... If We Have A Dollar To Spend On Some Wild Excess, We Shall Spend It On A Book, Not On Asparagus Out Of Season.

Originality Usually Amounts Only To Plagiarizing Something Unfamiliar.

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

... If A Person Is To Be Unconventional, He Must Be Amusing Or He Is Intolerable: For, In The Nature Of The Case, He Guarantees You Nothing But Amusement. He Does Not Guarantee You Any Of The Little Amenities By Which Society Has Assured Itself That, If It Must Go To Sleep, It Will At Least Sleep In A Comfortable Chair.

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.