What Are These Unheard Of Sins You

A Village In A Country Which Is Taking Pains To Become Altogether Standardized And Pure, Which Aspires To Succeed Victorian England As The Chief Mediocrity Of The World, Is No Longer Merely Provincial, No Longer Downy And Restful In Its Leaf-shadowed Ignorance. It Is A Force Seeking To Conquer The Earth. Sure Of Itself, It Bullies Other Civilizations, As A Traveling Salesman In A Brown Derby Conquers The Wisdom Of China And Tacks Advertisements Of Cigarettes Over Arches For Centuries Dedicated To The Sayings Of Confucius.

Do You Think It's So Snobbish, To Want To See Something Besides One's Fellow Citizens Abroad?

Why Is It That Traveling Americans Are Always So Dreadful?

Life Is Hard And Astonishingly Complicated.... No One Great Reform Will Make It Easy. Most Of Us Who Work -- Or Want To Work -- Will Always Have Trouble Or Discontent. So We Must Learn To Be Calm, And Train All Our Faculties, And Make Others Happy.

He Who Has Seen One Cathedral Ten Times Has Seen Something; He Who Has Seen Ten Cathedrals Once Has Seen But Little; And He Who Has Spent Half An Hour In Each Of A Hundred Cathedrals Has Seen Nothing At All.