It Is Possible That An Individual May

Hospitality Still Survives Among Foreigners, Although It Is Buried Under False Pride Among The Poorest Americans.

I Had A Consuming Ambition To Possess A Miller's Thumb. I Believe I Have Never Since Wanted Anything More Desperately Than I Wanted My Right Thumb To Be Flattened As My Father’s Had Become, During His Earlier Years Of A Miller’s Life.

The Task Of Youth Is Not Only Its Own Salvation But The Salvation Of Those Against Whom It Rebels, But In That Case There Must Be Something Vital To Rebel Against And If The Elderly Stiffly Refuse To Put Up A Vigorous Front Of Their Own, It Leaves The Entire Situation In A Mist.

Perhaps Nothing Is So Fraught With Significance As The Human Hand, This Oldest Tool With Which Man Has Dug His Way From Savagery, And With Which He Is Constantly Groping Forward.

I Have Come To Believe ... That The Stage May Do More Than Teach, That Much Of Our Current Moral Instruction Will Not Endure The Test Of Being Cast Into A Lifelike Mold, And When Presented In Dramatic Form Will Reveal Itself As Platitudinous And Effete. That Which May Have Sounded Like Righteous Teaching When It Was Remote And Wordy, Will Be Challenged Afresh When It Is Obliged To Simulate Life Itself.