Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

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.

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.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method. You could ignore a subject; no subject is all-inclusive. But a method can plausibly be applied to anything within the field of consciousness.

if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.