Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway.
The winter will be long and bleak. Nature has a dismal aspect.
After owning books, almost the next best thing is talking about them.
To believe everything is to be an imbecile. To deny everything is to be a fool.
Literature is the expression of society.
Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.
After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public the innocent richness of thought which we have acquired by the culture of letters.
My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.
After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98. 6 degrees of marriage.
And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?
The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time.