One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

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

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

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

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.

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