Occupation: Writer Birth: February 6, 1879 Death: July 27, 1944
Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not ma….
... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season..
Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin..
Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit..
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 f….
We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits that were inven….
Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give..
Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly w….
It is not permissible to lie merely to save one's face. But it is sometimes permissible to lie to save another person's face..
Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and his sister's friends can't or won't.….
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones..
There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary..
The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method. You could ignore a subject; no subject is all-inclusive. But a meth….
The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method..
For never doubt that those souls who live least by the flesh feel themselves most defiled by its defilement..
On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave the lying to the people who hate….
It is not strange that some of our revoltes preach trial marriage: for the only safe way to marry them at all would be on trial. Until you had defini….
... 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 ve….
... 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 ….
Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, ….
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done dest….