All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

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

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.