Every great wave of popular passion that rolls up on the prairies is dashed to spray when it strikes the hard rocks of Manhattan

A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what you mean by two, what by makes, and what by four

At the moment of the contemporary metaphysician's loftiest flight, when he is most gratefully warmed by the feeling that he is far above all the ordinary airlanes and has an absolutely novel concept by the tail, he is suddenly pulled up by the discov

When something like this happens, you get your hopes up and they just get dashed.

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands