Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin.

When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.

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.

We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits that were invented for semi-imbeciles in Italian slums; or we send them to outdoor schools and give them prizes for sleeping.

Do you see any majority, anywhere, in this imperfect and irreligious world, admitting that the minority is precious? That any minority is precious?

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

... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season.