Measured by any standard known to science--by horse-power, calories, volts, mass in any shape,--the tension and vibration and volu...me and so-called progression of society were full a thousand times greater in 1900 than in 1800;Mthe force had doubled ten times over, and the speed, when measured by electrical standards as in telegraphy, approached infinity, and had annihilated both space and time. No law of material movement applied to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When much intercourse with a friend has supplied us with a standard of excellence, and has increased our respect for the resources... of God who thus sends a real person to outgo our ideal; when he has, moreover, become an object of thought, and, whilst his character retains all its unconscious effect, is converted in the mind into solid and sweet wisdom,--it is a sign to us that his office is closing, and he is commonly withdrawn from our sight in a short time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man n...ot only enough to live by, but something to live for.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some of the smartest women in the country said that they're too embarrassed to attend their reunions at Harvard Business School if... they have dropped out of the work force, left the fast track by choosing part-time work, or decided to follow anything other than the standard male career path.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This seems a long while ago, and yet it happened since Milton wrote his Paradise Lost. But its antiquity is not the less great for... that, for we do not regulate our historical time by the English standard, nor did the English by the Roman, nor the Roman by the Greek.... From this September afternoon, and from between these now cultivated shores, those times seemed more remote than the dark ages.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We went to see the ocean, and that is probably the best place of all our coast to go to. If you go by water, you may experience wh...at it is to leave and to approach these shores; you may see the stormy petrel by the way, thalassodroma, running over the sea, and if the weather is but a little thick, may lose sight of the land in mid-passage. I do not know where there is another beach in the Atlantic States, attached to the mainland, so long, and at the same time so straight, and completely uninterrupted by creeks or coves or fresh-water rivers and marshes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go westward as in...to the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure. The Atlantic is a Lethean stream, in our passage over which we have had an opportunity to forget the Old World and its institutions. If we do not succeed this time, there is perhaps one more chance for the race left before it arrives on the banks of the Styx; and that is in the Lethe of the Pacific, which is three times as wide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at N...ew York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »