If we eliminated the dog from our lives, nothing much would happen to our ecology. Independent of man, the dog is a vandal. With m...an, he does a little sheep-herding, a little watch-dogging. He helps law enforcement officers control the troublesome ghetto-dwellers and protest marchers. He sniffs out "hash" and "grass." He goes out on weekends and helps man murder other forms of life for pleasure. But mostly he is just an adjunct to man's ego.... The cat owes man nothing. Some experts estimate that there is one homeless cat managing on its own for every one with a home, which makes a total cat population in the U.S. of more than fifty million. That means the largest nonhuman animal population in the nation, short of rodents, whose number is beyond estimate. Eliminate cats from our ecology and, in a matter of weeks, we would be overrun by rodents.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rude poets of the tavern hearth, squandering your unquoted mirth,... which keeps the ground, and never soars, while jake retorts, and reuben roars; tough and screaming, as birch-bark, goes like bullet to its mark; while the solid curse and jeer never balk the waiting ear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has no ...prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a s...ad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He even ran away with hunself and became a farsoonerite, saying he would far sooner muddle through the hash of lentils in Europe t...han meddle with Irrland's split little pea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The calm, the coolness, the silent grass-growing mood in which a man ought always to compose,--that, I fear, can seldom be mine. D...ollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. My dear Sir, a presentiment is on me,--I shall at last be worn out and perish, like an old nutmeg-grater, grated to pieces by the constant attrition of the wood, that is, the nutmeg. What I feel most moved to write, that is banned,--it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, and all my books are botches.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened p...erson draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »