To ask the hard question is simple.

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.

The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also with scented assassins, salad-eaters who murder on milk.

Though one cannot always Remember exactly why one has been happy, There is no forgetting that one was.