Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. O… - H. G. Wells

To Europe she was America. To America she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world.

I thought I was killing myself and I did not care.

In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughter-houses. And, in a population that is all educated, and at about the same level of physical refinement, it is practically impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. We never settled the hygienic question of meat-eating at all. This other aspect decided us. I can still remember, as a boy, the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughter-house.