If the physicians had not their cassocks and their mules, if the doctors had not their square caps and their robes four times too ...wide, they would never had duped the world, which cannot resist so original an appearance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We me...et at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are. We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war. We meet at the post-office, and at the sociable, and about the fireside every night; we live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another. Certainly less frequency would suffice for all important and hearty communications. Consider the girls in a factory,--never alone, hardly in their dreams. It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live. The value of a man is not in his skin, that we should touch him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or ...another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall--which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One alone in a Chinese square confronted tanks, while others fled.... He stood for freedom for us all, but few care now if he's jailed or dead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that ca...n at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The line it is drawn The curse it is cast... The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The order is Rapidly fadin'. And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin'.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptac...le in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »