In America You Can Say

I Move In A Society So Devoid Of Ordinary Reality That I Am Continually Stopping To Teach Good Sense, To Give Support, To Help Out, As A Young Gangster Might Help An Old Lady Across The Street On His Way To The Stick-up.

When A Village Ceases To Be A Community, It Becomes Oppressive In Its Narrow Conformity. So One Becomes An Individual And Migrates To The City. There, Finding Others Like-minded, One Re-establishes A Village Community. Nowadays Only New Yorkers Are Yokels.

It Rarely Adds Anything To Say, "in My Opinion" - Not Even Modesty. Naturally A Sentence Is Only Your Opinion; And You Are Not The Pope.

We Do Not Need To Be Able To Say What "human Nature" Is In Order To Be Able To Say That Some Training Is "against Human Nature.

For Mankind, Speech With A Capital S Is Especially Meaningful And Committing, More Than The Content Communicated. The Outcry Of The Newborn And The Sound Of The Bells Are Fraught With Mystery More Than The Baby's Woeful Face Or The Venerable Tower.