A Senator Is Like A Begonia -

As A Historian, He Felt It His Duty To Respect Everything That Had Ever Been Respected, Except For The Occasional Statesman.

Chaos Was The Law Of Nature; Order Was The Dream Of Man.

I Am Fairly Tired--bored Beyond Endurance--by The World We Live In, And Its Ideals, And Am Ready To Say So, Not Violently, But Kindly, As One Rubs Salt Into The Back Of A Flogged Sailor As Though One Loved Him.

As For America, It Is The Ideal Fruit Of All Your Youthful Hopes And Reforms. Everybody Is Fairly Decent, Respectable, Domestic, Bourgeois, Middle-class, And Tiresome. There Is Absolutely Nothing To Revile Except That It's A Bore.

[adams] Supposed That, Except Musicians, Everyone Thought Beethoven A Bore, As Every One Except Mathematicians Thought Mathematics A Bore.