Conventional Manners Are A Kind

There Are Only Three Things Worthwhile -- Fighting, Drinking, And Making Love.

I Have Always, Privately And Humbly, Thought It A Pity That So Good A Word [as Culture] Should Go Out Of The Best Vocabularies; For When You Lose An Abstract Term, You Are Apt To Lose The Thing It Stands For.

The Only Glory Most Of Us Have To Hope For Is The Glory Of Being Normal.

... The More We Recruit From Immigrants Who Bring No Personal Traditions With Them, The More America Is Going To Ignore The Things Of The Spirit. No One Whose Consuming Desire Is Either For Food Or For Motor-cars Is Going To Care About Culture, Or Even Know What It Is.

What Passes For An Original Opinion Is, Generally, Merely An Original Phrase. Old Lamps For New - Yes; But It Is Always The Same Oil In The Lamp.