Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself i...n some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belon...gs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come then to prayers And kneel upon the stone,... For we have tried All courages on these despairs, And are required lastly to give up pride, And the last difficult pride in being humble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You are, or you are not the President of The National University Law School. If you are its President I wish to say to you that I ...have been passed through the curriculum of study of that school, and am entitled to, and demand my Diploma. If you are not its President then I ask you to take your name from its papers, and not hold out to the world to be what you are not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross,... Join with the spite of fortune, make me bow, And do not drop in for an after-loss: Ah! do not, when my heart hath 'scaped this sorrow, Come in the rearward of a conquered woe; Give not a windy night a rainy morrow, To linger out a purposed overthrow. If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last, When other petty griefs have done their spite, But in the onset come; so shall I taste At first the very worst of fortune's might.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we returned ... a Province man was betraying his greenness to the Yankees by his questions. Why Province money won't pass her...e at par, when States' money is good at Fredericton,--though this, perhaps, was sensible enough. From what I saw then, it appears that the Province man was now the only real Jonathan, or raw country bumpkin, left so far behind by his enterprising neighbors that he didn't know enough to put a question to them. No people can long continue provincial in character who have the propensity for politics and whittling, and rapid traveling, which the Yankees have, and who are leaving the mother country behind in the variety of their notions and inventions. The possession and exercise of practical talent merely are a sure and rapid means of intellectual culture and independence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then, though darkened, you shall say, When friends fail, and Princes frown,... Virtue is the roughest way, But proves at night a bed of down.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"The work is done," grown old he thought, "According to my boyish plan;... Let the fools rage, I swerved in nought, Something to perfection brought;" But louder sang that ghost "What then?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All his happier dreams came true A small old house, wife, daughter, son,... Grounds where plum and cabbage grew, Poets and Wits about him drew; "What then?"sang Plato's ghost, "what then?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »