Culture' Means A Long Receptivity

Most Men Have Always Wanted As Much As They Could Get; And Possession Has Always Blunted The Fine Edge Of Their Altruism.

The Past Is Discredited Because It Is Not Modern. Not To Be Modern Is The Great Sin. So, Perhaps, It Is. But Every One Has, In His Day, Been Modern. And Surely Even Modernity Is A Poor Thing Beside Immortality. Since We Must All Die, Is It Not Perhaps Better To Be A Dead Lion Than A Living Dog?

There Are Inquiries Which Are A Sort Of Moral Burglary.

... It Is A Great Mistake To Confuse Conventionality With Simplicity ... It Takes A Good Deal Of Intelligence And A Great Many Inhibitions To Follow A Social Code.

Individual Freedom And Individual Equality Cannot Co-exist. I Dare Say No One Since Thomas Jefferson Has Really Believed It.