In progress of time, when my mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian æther, I could, with much more facili...ty and exactness, carry in my memory and commit to paper the exuberant variety of his wit and wisdom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive.... He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the t...hought of death ... and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sports and gallantries, the stage, the arts, the antics of dancers, The exuberant voices of music,... Have charm for children but lack nobility; it is bitter earnestness That makes beauty; the mind Knows, grown adult.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of bache...lor independence. That the responsibilities of world power have not made us happier is no surprise. To help ourselves manage them, we have replaced the illusion of isolation with a new illusion of omnipotence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »