The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the first time, the stage-scenery of the senses collapsed; the human mind felt itself stripped naked, vibrating in a void of shapeless energies, with resistless mass, colliding, crushing, wasting, and destroying what these same energies had created and labored from eternity to perfect.

One could not stay a month without loving the shabby town

The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.

Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.

A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression and that every.