Love Of Truth, Ordinary Common Truth Recognizable

... In America ... Children Are Instructed In The Virtues Of The System They Live Under, As Though History Had Achieved A Happy Ending In American Civics.

Labor Is Work That Leaves No Trace Behind It When It Is Finished.

Maybe Any Action Becomes Cowardly Once You Stop To Reason About It.

To Be Disesteemed By People You Don't Have Much Respect For Is Not The Worst Fate.

Combativeness Was, I Suppose, The Dominant Trait In My Grandmother's Nature. An Aggressive Churchgoer, She Was Quite Without Christian Feeling; The Mercy Of The Lord Jesus Had Never Entered Her Heart. Her Piety Was An Act Of War Against Protestant Ascendancy. ...the Teachings Of The Church Did Not Interest Her, Except As They Were A Rebuke To Others.