The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a te...nder and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success. Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In literary circles, the men of trust and consideration, bookmakers, editors, university deans and professors, bishops, too, were ...by no means men of the largest literary talent, but usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality, with a sort of mercantile activity and working talent. Indifferent hacks and mediocrities tower, by pushing their forces to a lucrative point, or by working power, over multitudes of superior men, in Old as in New England.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most ...lucrative of its branches.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I... lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hilary Clinton's great sin was that she left the nicely wallpapered domestic sphere with a slam of the door, took up public life o...n her own, leaving big feminist footprints all over the place, and without so much as an apology.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »