There Are Inquiries Which Are A Sort

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.

... 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.

For Never Doubt That Those Souls Who Live Least By The Flesh Feel Themselves Most Defiled By Its Defilement.

It Is Not Permissible To Lie Merely To Save One's Face. But It Is Sometimes Permissible To Lie To Save Another Person's Face.

There Are Only Three Things Worthwhile -- Fighting, Drinking, And Making Love.