I don't like the city better, the more I see it, but worse. I am ashamed of my eyes that behold it. It is a thousand times meaner ...than I could have imagined.... The pigs in the street are the most respectable part of the population.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep ea...ch other warm.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is n...ot to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile--and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not nece...ssarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. We owe that to ourselves and our crippled self-image as something better than a nation of panicked sheep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are other, savager and more primeval aspects of nature than our poets have sung. It is only white man's poetry. Homer and Os...sian even can never revive in London or Boston. And yet, behold how these cities are refreshed by the mere tradition, or the imperfectly transmitted fragrance and flavor of these wild fruits. If we could listen but for an instant to the chant of the Indian muse, we should understand why he will not exchange his savageness for civilization. Nations are not whimsical. Steel and blankets are strong temptations; but the Indian does well to continue Indian.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sturdy Irish arms that do the work are of more worth than oak or maple. Methinks I could look with equanimity upon a long stre...et of Irish cabins, and pigs and children reveling in the genial Concord dirt; and I should still find my Walden Wood and Fair Haven in their tanned and happy faces.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The captain sat in a commodore's hat And dined in a royal way... On toasted pigs and pickles and figs And gummery bread each day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »