Conventional Manners Are A Kind Of Literacy

What Passes For An Original Opinion Is, Generally, Merely An Original Phrase. Old Lamps For New - Yes; But It Is Always The Same Oil In The Lamp.

Simplicity Is An Acquired Taste. Mankind, Left Free, Instinctively Complicates Life.

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.

Society, By Insisting On Conventions, Has Merely Insisted On Certain Convenient Signs By Which We May Know That A Man Is Considering, In Daily Life, The Comfort Of Other People.

Originality Usually Amounts Only To Plagiarizing Something Unfamiliar.