Fogeydom is the last bastion of the bore and reminiscence is its anthem. It is futile to want the old days back, but that doesn't mean one should ignore the lessons of the visitable past.

Assigning human personalities to animals is the chief trait of the pet owner-the doting dog-lover with his baby talk, the smug stay-at-home with a fat lump of …

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.

It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down. It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses. It is not the streets that exist. It is the…

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

When you look closely it is a question whether that which is a wrong to the present community may not prove to have been a right to the interests of posterity.…