POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles he mis...takes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Foundations of Morality: are like all other foundations; if you dig too much about them the superstructure will come tumbling down....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimenta...lity is the superstructure erected upon brutality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation--but I'm working on... the foundation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I dug my cellar in the side of a hill sloping to the south, where a woodchuck had formerly dug his burrow, down through sumach and... blackberry roots, and the lowest stain of vegetation, six feet square by seven deep, to a fine sand where potatoes would not freeze in any winter.... I took particular pleasure in this breaking of ground, for in almost all latitudes men dig into the earth for an equable temperature. Under the most splendid house in the city is still to be found the cellar where they store their roots as of old, and long after the superstructure has disappeared posterity remark its dent in the earth. The house is still but a sort of porch at the entrance of a burrow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »