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 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.

Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.

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.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

You can bear anything if it is not your fault.

You are the Arabian stallion that neighs on the crossroad of my heart ache covering me with the dust of my own ardor.

Don’t get me wrong. I like dogs. I love them, in fact. It’s their human counterparts I could sometimes do without.

I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.

Respondent would have us announce a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do.

Throw caution to the wind and just do it.

Fashion is general. Style is individual.

I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.

I certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.

Success is created through the performance of a few small daily disciplines that stack up over time to produce achievements far beyond anything you could have ever planned for.

One cannot leap a chasm in two jumps.