Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

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.

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

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it.

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

Some of the men and women who will not say in so many words the thing which is not, will deliberately give a false impression. They are not the servants of truth; they are the parasites of truth.