Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
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.
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.
No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.
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.
