Those summer days which some of my contemporaries devoted to the fine arts in Boston or Rome, and others to contemplation in India..., and others to trade in London or New York, I thus, with the other farmers of New England, devoted to husbandry. Not that I wanted beans to eat, for I am by nature a Pythagorean, so far as beans are concerned, whether they mean porridge or voting, and exchanged them for rice; but, perchance, as some must work in fields if only for the sake of tropes and expression, to serve a parable-maker one day. It was on the whole a rare amusement, which, continued too long, might have become a dissipation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The right of the police of Boston to affiliate has always been questioned, never granted, is now prohibited.... There is no right ...to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I mount the steps and ring the bell, turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod good-bye to Rochefoucauld,... If the street were time and he at the end of the street, And I say, "Cousin Harriet, here is the Boston Evening Transcript."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town which ...was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Boston is not a small New York, as they say a child is not a small adult but is, rather, a specially organized small creature with... its small-creature's temperature, balance, and distribution of fat. In Boston there is an utter absence of that wild electric beauty of New York, of the marvelous, excited rush of people in taxicabs at twilight, of the great Avenues and Streets, the restaurants, theatres, bars, hotels, delicatessens, shops. In Boston the night comes down with an incredibly heavy, small-town finality. The cows come home; the chickens go to roost; the meadow is dark. Nearly every Bostonian is in his house or in someone else's house, dining at the home board, enjoying domestic and social privacy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »