Many People Today Don't Want

It Is One Of The Sublime Provincialities Of New York That Its Inhabitants Lap Up Trivial Gossip About Essential Nobodies They've Never Set Eyes On, While Continuing To Boast That They Could Live Somewhere For Twenty Years Without So Much As Exchanging Pleasantries With Their Neighbors Across The Hall.

In The History Of Thought And Culture The Dark Nights Have Perhaps In Some Ways Cost Mankind Less Grief Than The False Dawns, The Prison Houses In Which Hope Persists Less Grief Than The Promised Lands Where Hope Expires.

If It Is The Great Delusion Of Moralists To Suppose That All Previous Ages Were Less Sinful Than Their Own, Then It Is The Great Delusion Of Intellectuals To Suppose That All Previous Ages Were Less Sick.

Has There Ever Been An Age So Rife With Neurotic Sensibility, With That State Of Near Shudders, Or Near Hysteria, Or Near Nausea, Much Of It Induced By Trifles, Which Used To Belong To People Who Were At Once Ill-adjusted And Over-civilized?

He Was The Mightiest Of Puritans No Less Than Of Philistines Who First Insisted That Beauty Is Only Skin Deep.