Time Makes Heroes But Dissolves Celebrities.

While The Focus In The Landscape Of Old World Cities Was Commonly Government Structures, Churches, Or The Residences Of Rulers, The Landscape And The Skyline Of American Cities Have Boasted Their Hotels, Department Stores, Office Buildings, Apartments, And Skyscrapers. In This Grandeur, Americans Have Expressed Their Booster Pride, Their Hopes For Visitors And New Settlers, And Customers, For Thriving Commerce And Industry.

The Cities Of Italy Are Now Deluged With Droves Of These Creatures [tour Groups], For They Never Separate, And You See Them, Forty In Number, Pouring Along A Street With Their Director - Now In Front, Now At The Rear, Circling Them Like A Sheep Dog - And Really The Process Is As Like Herding As May Be.

The Image Is Made To Order, Tailored To Us. An Ideal, On The Hand, Has A Claim On Us. It Does Not Serve Us, We Serve It. If We Have Trouble Striding Toward It, We Assume The Matter Is With Us, And Not The Ideal.

Where Ruts Have Not Yet Been Worn, It Requires Less Effort To Stay Out Of Them.

The Mind Is A Vagrant Thing.... Thinking Is Not Analogous To A Person Working In A Laboratory Who Invents Something On Company Time.