Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubbo...rn cunning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Take a decayed Christian ... and the remains of a Stoic; mix thoroughly with good manners, a bit of money and an old-fashioned edu...cation; simmer for several years in a university. Result: a scholar and a gentleman. Well, there were worse types of human being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensation...s which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The people who make wars, the people who reduce their fellows to slavery, the people who kill and torture and tell lies in the nam...e of their sacred causes, the really evil people in a word--these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »