to be breakable is not the same as to be perishable. Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant; simply do not strike it, and it will endure a thousand years.

“It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with …”

“Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.”

“Is that all?" asked Flambeau after a long pause. "Have we got to the dull truth…”

“That a good man may have his back to the wall is no more than we knew already, …”