There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for... willing bondage to irremediable weakness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But ...it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self- congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality f...or his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. Alcott seems to have sat down for the winter. He has got Plato and other books to read. He is as large-featured and hospitable... to traveling thoughts and thinkers as ever; but with the same Connecticut philosophy as ever, mingled with what is better. If he would only stand upright and toe the line!--though he were to put off several degrees of largeness, and put on a considerable degree of littleness. After all, I think we must call him particularly your man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »