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

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

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.

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

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.