"Americans have always been especially prone to regard all things as resulting from the free choice of a free will. Pr…"

"Democracy is clearly most appropriate for countries which enjoy an economic surplus and least appropriate for countri…"

"Here, for the last time together, appeared a triumvirate of old men, relics of a golden age, who still towered like g…"

"Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury. And though we might be dragged along without them, it…"

"The wilderness begins at the edge of my body, at the edge of my consciousness, and extends to the edge of the univers…"

"I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the sto…"

"This is not a man who sits down to "write a poem"; rather, some burden of understanding and feeling, some need to kno…"

"I never cared a bit for philology; my chief aim has been throughout to illustrate the social condition of the English…"

"Aux États-Unis la nature, comme la société, n'est pas toujours belle, mais elle est toujours grande."

"Since the normal tendency is to simplify, to trivialize, to eliminate the unfamiliar word or construction, the rule i…"