What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil..., or there is no existence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"I wonder what life means," said my friend when he had apparently just been thinking. "I have no idea," I volunteered in my cheerf...ul manner, helpful and yet lighthearted at the same time; for philosophy was to me both an agreeable and an instructive science and presented many worthwhile topics of significance and entertainment to the whole world, and would be a useful ornament rather than a disgrace in any adult conversation that claims to be mature and reflect these enlightened modern times, when so many human beings have received a college education that illiterate democracy is simply packed solid with an unprecedented quantity of well-rounded cultural ingredients, much to the united pride of this abounding twentieth century intellect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of t...ravel and change.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best of our judgmen...t, for the sake of perspicuity in the story and the delight and entertainment of our candid reader.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Obscenity" is a legal term for a category of sexually explicit art and entertainment that the Supreme Court has said is without F...irst Amendment protection. According to those nine wise jurists, obscenity is sexually explicit material that lacks any serious artistic or other value, is patently offensive, and appeals to "shameful or morbid" sexual appetites, as judged by the standards of a particular community. Because pornographic works may arouse only healthy sexual urges, may have serious artistic value, and may not be considered patently offensive in a particular community, most pornography is not legally obscene.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The cheapest way to travel, and the way to travel the farthest in the shortest distance, is to go afoot, carrying a dipper, a spoo...n, and a fish line, some Indian meal, some salt, and some sugar.... Any one of these things I mean, not all together. I have traveled thus some hundreds of miles without taking any meal in a house, sleeping on the ground when convenient, and found it cheaper, and in many respects more profitable, than staying at home. So that some have inquired why it would not be best to travel always. But I never thought of traveling simply as a means of getting a livelihood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"The Love that dare not speak its name" in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was betwe...en David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare. It is that deep, spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect.... It is in this century misunderstood ... and on account of it I am placed where I am now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Moscow, breathing fire like a human volcano with its smouldering lava of passion, ambition and politics, its hurly- burly of meeti...ngs and entertainment.... Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new, the newest events, the latest sensation. Everyone wants to be the first to know. It's the rhythm of life today.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is because everything is relative That we shall never see in that sphere of pure wisdom and... Entertainment much more than groping shadows of an incomplete Former existence so close it burns like the mouth that Closes down over all your effort like the moment Of deathLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »