Democracy Always Makes For Materialism,

Conventional Manners Are A Kind Of Literacy Test For The Alien Who Comes Among Us.

... When You Make It A Moral Necessity For The Young To Dabble In All The Subjects That The Books On The Top Shelf Are Written About, You Kill Two Very Large Birds With One Stone: You Satisfy Precious Curiosities, And You Make Them Believe That They Know As Much About Life As People Who Really Know Something. If College Boys Are Solemnly Advised To Listen To Lectures On Prostitution, They Will Listen; And Who Is To Blame If Some Time, In A Less Moral Moment, They Profit By Their Information?

I Have Looked Warily At Anthropologists Ever Since The Day When I Went To Hear A Great Greek Scholar Lecture On The Iliad, And Listened For An Hour To Talk About Bull-roarers And Leopard-societies.

The Past Is Discredited Because It Is Not Modern. Not To Be Modern Is The Great Sin. So, Perhaps, It Is. But Every One Has, In His Day, Been Modern. And Surely Even Modernity Is A Poor Thing Beside Immortality. Since We Must All Die, Is It Not Perhaps Better To Be A Dead Lion Than A Living Dog?

Some Of The Men And Women Who Will Not Say In So Many Words The Thing Which Is Not, Will Deliberately Give A False Impression. They Are Not The Servants Of Truth; They Are The Parasites Of Truth.