The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not.

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not.

For never doubt that those souls who live least by the flesh feel themselves most defiled by its defilement.

Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, the comfort of other people.

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.