The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.

Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers. (excerpt from 'The Garrett')

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.

Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in Congress have the right to issue money and to determine the value thereof. And 120 million, 120 million suckers have lamentably failed to insist on the observation of this quite decided law. ... Now the point at which embezzlement of the nation's funds on the part of her officers becomes treason can probably be decided only by jurists, and not by hand-picked judges who support illegality.

I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.