Morality Is A Private And Costly Luxury.

As History Stands, It Is A Sort Of Chinese Play, Without End And Without Lesson.

The Habit Of Expression Leads To The Search For Something To Express. Something Remains As A Residuum Of The Commonplace Itself, If One Strikes Out Every Commonplace In The Expression.

All Taxation Is An Evil, But Heavy Taxes, Indiscriminately Levied On Every Everything Are One Of The Greatest Curses That Can Afflict A People

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.

[after Viewing The Palace Of Electricity At The 1900 Trocadero Exposition In Paris] [saint-gaudens And Matthew Arnold] Felt A Railway Train As Power; Yet They, And All Other Artists, Constantly Complained That The Power Embodied In A Railway Train Could Never Be Embodied In Art. All The Steam In The World Could Not, Like The Virgin, Build Chartres.