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

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

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

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

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

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?

On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave the lying to the people who hate it. You will not find them indulging often.