The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drun...kard or the ape.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My civil neighbor, the tax-gatherer, is the very man I have to deal with,--for it is, after all, with men and not with parchment t...hat I quarrel,--and he has voluntarily chosen to be an agent of the government. How shall he ever know well what he is and does as an officer of the government, or as a man, until he is obliged to consider whether he shall treat me, his neighbor, for whom he has respect, as a neighbor and well-disposed man, or as a maniac and disturber of the peace, and see if he can get over this obstruction to his neighborliness without a ruder and more impetuous thought or speech corresponding with his action.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidair...es, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side... of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »