I should not take either the biggest or the most picturesque tree to illustrate it. Here is one of my favorites now before me, a fine yellow poplar, q...
The English seem as silent as the Japanese, yet vainer than the inhabitants of Siam. Upon my arrival I attributed that reserve to modesty, which, I no...
There are two ways of thinking of history. There is, first, history regarded as a way of looking at other things, really the temporal aspect of anythi...
Remember, my son, you have to work. Whether you handle a pick or a pen, a wheel-barrow or a set of books, digging ditches or editing a paper, ringing ...
When in an hour they crowded into a cab to go home, I strolled idly to my club. I was perhaps a little lonely, and it was with a touch of envy that I ...
Imagine that you spent your whole life at a single house.Each day at the same hour you entered an artificially-lit room,undressed and took up the same...
Build me a son, Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and...
Letter to a Young FriendBenjamin FranklinMy dear friendI know of no Medicine fit to diminish the violent natural inclination you mention; and if I did...
Life is never just being. It is becoming a relentless, flowing on. Our parents live on through us,and we will live on through our children. The instit...
"I tell you I must go!" I retorted, roused to something like passion. "Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I...