I Stand In The Sunny

It Does Not Follow Because Many Books Are Written By Persons Born In America That There Exists An American Literature. Books Which Imitate Or Represent The Thoughts And Life Of Europe Do Not Constitute An American Literature. Before Such Can Exist, An Original Idea Must Animate This Nation And Fresh Currents Of Life Must Call Into Life Fresh Thoughts Along The Shore.

Beware Of Over-great Pleasure In Being Popular Or Even Beloved.

Wine Is Earth's Answer To The Sun.

Our Desires, Once Realized, Haunt Us Again Less Readily.

Drudgery Is As Necessary To Call Out The Treasures Of The Mind, As Harrowing And Planting Those Of The Earth.