Morality Is A Private And Costly Luxury.

Chaos Breeds Life; Order Creates Habit.

The Woman Had Once Been Supreme; In France She Still Seemed Potent, Not Merely As A Sentiment But As A Force; Why Was She Unknownin America? For Evidently America Was Ashamed Of Her, And She Was Ashamed Of Herself, Otherwise They Would Not Have Strewn Fig-leaves So Profusely All Over Her. When She Was A True Force, She Was Ignorant Of Fig-leaves, But The Monthly-magazine-made American Female Had Not A Feature That Would Have Been Recognized By Adam. The Trait Was Notorious, And Often Humorous, But Anyone Brought Up Among Puritans Knew That Sex Was Sin. In Any Previous Age, Sex Was Strength.

Even Theologians, Even The Great Theologians Of The Thirteenth Century, Even Saint Thomas Aquinas Himself Did Not Trust To Faith Alone, Or Assume The Existence Of God.

Silence Alone Is Respectable And Respected. I Believe God To Be Silence.

History Is The Most Aristocratic Of All Literary Pursuits, Because It Obliges The Historian To Be Rich As Well As Educated.