And, of course, our American men don't have
the temperament to carry off a thing like that.

Of course, if we all turned Greek it would be
quite a shock at first to see everybody come
into a dining-room or a drawing-room looking like
Achilles does.

Not that temperament makes so much difference
as it did a few years ago, you know -- temperament
and personality are going out and individuality is
coming in.

Have you thought much about automatic writing?

It's being taken up again, you know.

Not the vulgar, old-fashioned kind of
spiritualism -- that was so ordinary, wasn't it?

The new ghosts are different. More -- more --
well, more REFINED, somehow, you know. Like the
new dances as compared with that horrid turkey trot.

One should always ask one's self: "Does this
have a refining influence on me; and through me on
the world?"

For, after all, there is a duty one owes to society