Conventional Manners Are A Kind

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.

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.

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.

Social Distinctions Concern Themselves Ultimately With Whom You May And May Not Marry.

Civilization Is Merely An Advance In Taste: Accepting, All The Time, Nicer Things, And Rejecting Nasty Ones.