In this Journal, my pen is a delicate needle point, tracing out a graph of temperament so as to show its daily fluctuations: grave... and gay, up and down, lamentation and revelry, self-love and self-disgust. You get here all my thoughts and opinions, always irresponsible and often contradictory or mutually exclusive, all my moods and vapours, all the varying reactions to environment of this jelly which is I.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is the pleasurable orgasm, like a rising sales graph, and there is the unpleasurable orgasm, slumping ominously like the Dow... Jones in 1929.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." ...We now practically read in "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners and catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty--to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they sa...y it in curves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my m...id-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. It is the noise of my contemporaries.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He interested me because he was so quiet and solitary and so happy withal; a well of good humor and contentment which overflowed a...t his eyes. His mirth was without alloy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of p...artaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »