If we allow our one-and-a-half year old to "help" us fold laundry he will learn something about buttons, zippers, snaps, where thi...ngs go, the physical properties of cloth, what happens when you drop it, how easy or hard it is to carry compared with everything else he has ever carried, what clean clothes smell like, how a big towel can turn into a small bundle, how the small bundle you just folded can turn into a big towel again, plus any songs we care to sing or stories or related or unrelated facts we care to pass on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The French courage proceeds from vanity--the German from phlegm--the Turkish from fanaticism & opium--the Spanish from pride--the ...English from coolness--the Dutch from obstinacy--the Russian from insensibility--but the Italian from anger.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by ...the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up t...o terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
she bit the towel and called on God and I saw her life stretch out . . .... I saw her torn in childbirth, and I saw her, at that moment, in her own death and I knew that she knew.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is joy in all:... in the hair I brush each morning, in the Cannon towel, newly washed, that I rub my body with each morning....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The period of the Visiter was one of great mental activity--a period of hobbies--and it, having assumed the reform roll [sic], was... expected to assume all the reforms. Turkish trowsers [sic], Fourierism, Spiritualism, Vegetarianism, Phonetics, Pneumonics, the Eight Hour Law, Criminal Candling, Magdalenism, and other devices for teaching the pyramids to stand on their apex were pressed upon the Visiter, and it was held by the disciples of each as "false to all its professions," when declining to devote itself to its advocacy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »