Conventional Manners Are A Kind Of Literacy

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.

If You Are Perfectly Willing To Shock An Individual Verbally, The Next Thing You Will Be Doing Is To Shock Him Practically.

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.

I Nearly Always Find, When I Ask A Vegetarian If He Is A Socialist, Or A Socialist If He Is A Vegetarian, That The Answer Is In The Affirmative.

The Past Is Discredited Because It Is Not Modern. Not To Be Modern Is The Great Sin. So, Perhaps, It Is. But Every One Has, In His Day, Been Modern. And Surely Even Modernity Is A Poor Thing Beside Immortality. Since We Must All Die, Is It Not Perhaps Better To Be A Dead Lion Than A Living Dog?