You Can Bear Anything If It Is

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.

There Are Inquiries Which Are A Sort Of Moral Burglary.

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.

Funny How People Despise Platitudes, When They Are Usually The Truest Thing Going. A Thing Has To Be Pretty True Before It Gets To Be A Platitude.

The Indiscreet Questioner - And By Indiscreet Questions I Mean Questions Which It Is Not Conceivably A Man's Duty Either To The Community Or To Any Individual To Answer - Is A Marauder, And There Is Every Excuse For Treating Him As Such.