“I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass.” GivingSoulMouthsSouthGlassesHypocrisyPocketsSouth AfricaSoapPiratePiousMeannessTowelsChristendom Book:Dear Mark Twain: Letters from His Readers Source: Dear Mark Twain: Letters from His Readers
“The nature of the place...whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low shrubs...generally gives hint as to its inhabitants.” GivingTreeLowsSouthDryTallHintsShrubsTall Trees Book:Audubon, by Himself: A Profile of John James Audubon from Writings Source: Audubon, by Himself: A Profile of John James Audubon from Writings
“Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are real places. Give no quarter to that thought, whether it threatens you with fear, or tempts you with hopes. For this is Superstition and all who believe it will come in the end to the swamps, to the south and the jungles, to the far south. Part of the same error is to think that the Landlord is a real man.” PeopleThinkingMenGivingFirstsBelieveRealEndsErrorsSouthWesternSouthernQuartersSuperstitionsEasternJungleReal MenSwampsLandlord Author:C. S. Lewis