The English were very backward to explore and settle the continent which they had stumbled upon. The French preceded them both in ...their attempts to colonize the continent of North America ... and in their first permanent settlement ... And the right of possession, naturally enough, was the one which England mainly respected and recognized in the case of Spain, of Portugal, and also of France, from the time of Henry VII.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today brings the sad, glad tidings that Mrs. Abraham Lincoln has passed from that darkness which had fallen upon her path through ...this life, out into the light and joy of that life toward which her vision has so long been strained. Modern education is lethal to children.... We stuff them with mathematics, we pummel them with science, and we use them up before their time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The man who, from the beginning of his life, has been bathed at length in the soft atmosphere of a woman, in the smell of her hand...s, of her bosom, of her knees, of her hair, of her supple and floating clothes, ... has contracted from this contact a tender skin and a distinct accent, a kind of androgyny without which the harshest and most masculine genius remains, as far as perfection in art is concerned, an incomplete being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. They do everything in their power not to have any. And therefo...re, the great man, in order to exist, must possess a force of attack which is greater than the force of resistance developed by millions of people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Drawing is a struggle between nature and the artist, in which the better the artist understands the intentions of nature, the more... easily he will triumph over it. For him it is not a question of copying, but of interpreting in a simpler and more luminous language.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The colored people arrive, sit firmly down, Eat their Express Spaghetti, their T-bone steak,... Handling their steel and crockery with no clatter, Laugh punily, rise, go firmly out of the door.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »