Had I represented twenty thousand voters in Michigan, that political editor would not have known nor cared whether I was the oldes...t or the youngest daughter of Methuselah, or whether my bonnet came from the Ark or from Worth's.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Though of erect nature, man is far above the plants. For man's superior part, his head, is turned toward the superior part of the ...world, and his inferior part is turned toward the inferior world; and therefore he is perfectly disposed as to the general situation of his body. Plants have the superior part turned towards the lower world, since their roots correspond to the mouth, and their inferior parts towards the upper world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is real...ly going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And, indeed, is there not something holy about a great kitchen?... The scoured gleam of row upon row of metal vessels dangling fro...m hooks or reposing on their shelves till needed with the air of so many chalices waiting for the celebration of the sacrament of food. And the range like an altar, yes, before which my mother bowed in perpetual homage, a fringe of sweat upon her upper lip and the fire glowing in her cheeks.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am ... by tradition and long study a complete snob. P. Marlowe and I do not despise the upper classes because they take baths an...d have money; we despise them because they are phony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »