The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind..., and a disgrace to our theatrical history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And I could see that child's one eye Which seemed to laugh, and say with glee:... 'What caused my death you'll never know-- Perhaps my mother murdered me.' LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I turned my head and saw the wind, Not far from where I stood,... Dragging the corn by her golden hair, Into a dark and lonely wood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The debt was the most sacred obligation incurred during the war. It was by no means the largest in amount. We do not haggle with t...hose who lent us money. We should not with those who gave health and blood and life. If doors are opened to fraud, contrive to close them. But don't deny the obligation, or scold at its performance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The thirty thousand dollars is not the annual expense of the Executive Mansion. That may not be over twenty-five thousand dollars ...but it is about right for my total expenses. I have paid between six thousand dollars and seven thousand dollars for political purposes for the advantage of the Republican cause ... and rather large expenditures for dependents.... I shall leave here in debt from twenty thousand to twenty-five thousand dollars, but with a good credit, plenty of property, and in no sense needing pecuniary aid or sympathy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fox, he felt, had never seen his past disposed of like a fall of water. He had never measured off his day in moments: another-...-another--another. But now, thrown down so deeply in himself, into the darkness of the well, surprised by pain and hunger, might he not revert to an earlier condition, regain capacities which formerly were useless to him, pass from animal to Henry, become human in his prison, X his days, count, wait, listen for another--another--another--another?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »