It Is Not Permissible To Lie Merely

I Have Always, Privately And Humbly, Thought It A Pity That So Good A Word [as Culture] Should Go Out Of The Best Vocabularies; For When You Lose An Abstract Term, You Are Apt To Lose The Thing It Stands For.

Do You See Any Majority, Anywhere, In This Imperfect And Irreligious World, Admitting That The Minority Is Precious? That Any Minority Is Precious?

The Principle Of Fashion Is . . . The Principle Of The Kaleidoscope. A New Year Can Only Bring Us A New Combination Of The Same Elements; And About Once In So Often We Go Back And Begin Again.

Originality Usually Amounts Only To Plagiarizing Something Unfamiliar.

No Convention Gets To Be A Convention At All Except By Grace Of A Lot Of Clever And Powerful People First Inventing It, And Then Imposing It On Others. You Can Be Pretty Sure, If You Are Strictly Conventional, That You Are Following Genius--a Long Way Off. And Unless You Are A Genius Yourself, That Is A Good Thing To Do.