In the game of "Whist for two," usually called "Correspondence," the lady plays what card she likes: the gentleman simply follows ...suit. If she leads with "Queen of Diamonds," however, he may, if he likes, offer the "Ace of Hearts": and, if she plays "Queen of Hearts," and he happens to have no Heart left, he usually plays "Knave of Clubs."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ceremony and ritual spring from our heart of hearts: those who govern us know it well, for they would sooner deny us bread than da...re alter the observance of tradition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not object to Gladstone's always having the ace of trumps up his sleeve, but only to his pretence that God had put it there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficialit...y of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our foes are in our midst and all about us. There is hardly a house but is divided against itself, for our foe is the all but univ...ersal woodenness of both head and heart, the want of vitality in man, which is the effect of our vice; and hence are begotten fear, superstition, bigotry, persecution, and slavery of all kinds. We are mere figure-heads upon a hulk, with livers in the place of hearts. The curse is the worship of idols, which at length changes the worshiper into a stone image himself; and the New-Englander is just as much an idolater as the Hindoo. This man was an exception, for he did not set up even a political graven image between him and his God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one mi...ght say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility toward women so manifest in most club-car stories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wet century-wide trees Clash in surrounding starlessness above... This lamplit cave, where Jan turns back and farts, Gobs at the grate, and hits the queen of hearts. Rain, wind and fire! The secret, bestial peace!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
--I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning;... Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »