To make our States one as to all foreign concerns, preserve them several as to all merely domestic, to give to the federal head some peaceable mode of enforcing its just authority, to organize that head into legislative, executive, and judiciary departments, are great Desiderata in our federal constitution.
"Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson"
Thomas Jefferson
Balzac is essentially a Realist, in his use of the novel as a vehicle for the description of real struggling life; with money and position, the principal Desiderata of modern civilisation, powerful as determining factors in the moulding of men's actions.
"Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings"
Mary F. Sandars
Collapsed condition, absences, interruptions of all sorts, have made the year end with most of the Desiderata postponed to next year.
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James