"Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.26"
"All reasoning seems to consist in such unit steps, and it seems misleading to talk of inference vi materiæ; material and formal are relative terms."
"There was another reason he chose Los Angeles as a place to take it on the lam: he had heard talk of big-time gin action there, at the Cavendish West Bridge Club downtown and at the Friars Club in Beverly Hills."