Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs.... I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the soul of man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality..., language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say, "I love you"; then if you urge me farther than to say, "Do you... in faith?," I wear out my suit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Society' in America means all the honest, kindly-mannered, pleasant- voiced women, and all the good, brave, unassuming men, betwe...en the Atlantic and the Pacific. Each of these has a free pass in every city and village, 'good for this generation only,' and it depends on each to make use of this pass or not as it may happen to suit his or her fancy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hard-hearted girl, get rid of these doubts... based on false rumor. It's not good to subject me to sorrow because of backbiters' words, or have you decided now, silly girl, that it's all true? Do to me what you will, sweetheart. Suit yourself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer r...eason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the cons...titution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,... Where ignorant armies clash by night.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »