Whoever is not in the possession of leisure can hardly be said to possess independence. They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. Tr...ue work is the necessity of poor humanity's earthly condition. The dignity is in leisure. Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We find it easy to set limits when the issue is safety.... But 99 percent of the time there isn't imminent danger; most of life ta...kes place on more ambiguous ground, and children are experts at detecting ambivalence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
According to fiction, the hillman is a seven-foot combination of malnutrition and hookworm, asleep on his front porch with the dog...s. His great bare feet, dangling off the porch, flap from time to time when the flies get too pesky, but nothing awakens him except a hound's salute to a stranger. Then he shoots up his astounding neck to its full length, ogles the visitor, and on his hunting horn blows a series of long and short blasts that means, "Hide yore stills and oil yore guns; they air a stranger h'yar."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I sink back shuddering from the quest. Earth being so good, would Heaven seem best?... Now, Heaven and she are beyond this ride.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »