It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it is almost within the grasp. - Theodore Dreiser

The nature of these vast retail combinations, should they ever permanently disappear, will form an interesting chapter in the commercial history of our nation.

Society possesses a conventional standard whereby it judges all things.

Would no one ever understand — or give him credit for his human — if all too human and perhaps wrong hungers — yet from which so many others — along with himself suffered?