Could they be perpetrated without being known, in a country like this, where social and literary intercourse is on such a footing, where every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay everything open?

A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her c…

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in the…

A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a muc…

Even in harmonious families there is this double life: the group life, which is the one we can observe in our neighbour's household, and, underneath, another -…

The federal government has no right to treat all Americans as criminals by spying on their relationship with their doctors, employers, or bankers.