Distance lends enchantment to the view.

The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.