Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.
I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you.
Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.
The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man and man. And it does not so much as even purport to be a contract between persons now existing.
Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission.
the whole purport of literature. . . is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.
My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.
