Be a little careful of your Library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, Wh...at it will do with you? You will come here & get books that will open your eyes, & your ears, & your curiosity, & turn you inside out or outside in.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents, ...asunder.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage of ...society; because a man will not lay up an estate for children any longer than whilst he believes them to be his own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The superstitions of our age are, the fear of Catholicism... the fear of Pauperism the fear of immigration the fear of manufacturing interests the fear of radicalism or democracy and faith in the steam engine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which n...o cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of per...spiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »