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Thus the greatest and fatal flaw was the failure to draw on its intellectual capital

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,"Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton

Farmer Landis, and raisin or "Rosina" pie,

There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity -- the law of nature, and of nations.

He says he went for a walk, and didn't get home till 11.45. I distrust people,' Stagge added peevishly, 'who go for walks at night. It isn't natural.

the sole problem was the terrible unawareness.

The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time hath made.

The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since being shot by Booth was to have fallen into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

No, I work for the newspaper, the Miami News. The hip-hopper's stare was blank. "What channel?" The future of my chosen profession looked bleak.

The leading lady had a large and saving sense of humor. But there is nothing that blunts the sense of humor more quickly than a few months of one-night stands. Even O. Henry could have seen nothing funny about that room.

And he whose soul is flat -- the sky Will cave in on him by and by.

Your broad sky, Giant, Is the shelf of a cupboard. I make bean-stalks—I'm A builder like yourself; But bean-stalks is my trade— I couldn't make a shelf

Whereas for most whites racism is prejudice, for most people of color racism is systemic or institutionalized.

Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exhaults and glorifies, the rebel

Cynicism is a cheap emotion, a craven substitute for thought and action.

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government ' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.

Vanity, vanity, nothing but vanity: the itch for naming things is almost as bad as the itch for possessing things.

If I should object to force I will be arrested. If I object to arrest I will be clubbed. If I defend myself against clubbing I will be shot. These procedures are known as The Rule of Law.

As to the charge that I am a cranky old man, I plead guilty.

R]eality and real people are too subtle and complicated for anybody's typewriter, even Tolstoy's, even yours, even mine.

obedience is such a fundamental habit of the contemporary American mind that any kind of disobedience is regarded as a form of insanity.

he responds to prejudice by cultivating a prejudice of his own against those whom he feels are even lower in the American hierarchy than he is: