Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.

Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse; and that the pastor's sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which 'did a fellow good-- kept him in touch with Higher Things.

His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.

What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?