"Even though no one else discovers the nonconformity or enforces the rules against it, the individual who has committe…"

"Does it really matter what these affectionate people do—so long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the h…"

"I see no impropriety in looking at the most beautiful of Nature's works, the naked figure. If there is impropriety, t…"

"I am oppressed with a sense of the impropriety of uttering words on this occasion. If silence is ever golden, it must…"

"A spirit of faction, which is apt to mingle its poison in the deliberations of all bodies of men, will often hurry th…"

"Impropriety is the soul of wit."

"If you enjoy watching birds, you stand in good company. There are, in the estimate of the National Survey on Recreati…"

"Birds become more and more fascinating, not less, the more you watch them."

"It is a fun exercise among s to try to pinpoint a childhood moment when they deviated from the path of “ordinary” peo…"

"But since it was birders he was dealing with, there wasn’t any harm just letting us in on the honor system. There was…"