Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare. – Christopher Morley Category: Miscellaneous
Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd. – Voltaire, 1767 Category: Miscellaneous
The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit. – Norman Douglas Category: Miscellaneous
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. – Mark Twain Category: Habits
Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri. – Francis Parkman Category: Morning
