Is one's only safety then in flight?
This is an American day, an American landscape, an American atmosphere.

It certainly has its merits, and some day when I am shivering with ague in classic Italy, I shall accuse myself of having slighted them." Roderick kindled with a sympathetic glow, and declared that America was good enough for him, and that he had always thought it the duty of an honest citizen to stand by his own country and help it along.

He had evidently thought nothing whatever about it, and was launching his doctrine on the inspiration of the moment.

The doctrine expanded with the occasion, and he declared that he was above all an advocate for American art.

He did n't see why we should n't produce the greatest works in the world.