The Mind Resorts To Reason For Want

In The History Of The United States, There Is No Continuity At All. You Can Cut Through It Anywhere And Nothing On This Side Of The Cut Has Anything To Do With Anything On The Other Side.

It Is Impossible To Underrate Human Intelligence - Beginning With One's Own.

The Outline Of The City Became Frantic In Its Effort To Explain Something That Defied Meaning. Power Seemed To Have Outgrown Its Servitude And To Have Asserted Its Freedom. The Cylinder Had Exploded, And Thrown Great Masses Of Stone And Steam Against The Sky.

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

The Woman Had Once Been Supreme; In France She Still Seemed Potent, Not Merely As A Sentiment But As A Force; Why Was She Unknownin America? For Evidently America Was Ashamed Of Her, And She Was Ashamed Of Herself, Otherwise They Would Not Have Strewn Fig-leaves So Profusely All Over Her. When She Was A True Force, She Was Ignorant Of Fig-leaves, But The Monthly-magazine-made American Female Had Not A Feature That Would Have Been Recognized By Adam. The Trait Was Notorious, And Often Humorous, But Anyone Brought Up Among Puritans Knew That Sex Was Sin. In Any Previous Age, Sex Was Strength.