Philosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
In Paris and London he had seen nothing to make a return to life worth while; in Washington he saw plenty of reasons for staying dead.
The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.
The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.
