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

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

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.

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

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

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