An American credit card is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

An American credit card is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.

I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature.

I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.