A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there--even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, ...perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way ...is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... up to this date, I have never been shut up in a separate room, or hedged off with any observances. My study, all the study I h...ave attained to, is the little 2nd drawing room where all the (feminine) life of the house goes on; and I don't think I have ever had two hours undisturbed (except at night, when everybody is in bed) during my whole literary life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Death does determine life.... Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is sus...pended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When at the pond, I wished sometimes to add fish to my fare for variety. I have actually fished from the same kind of necessity th...at the first fishers did. Whatever humanity I might conjure up against it was all factitious, and concerned my philosophy more than my feelings. I speak of fishing only now, for I had long felt differently about fowling, and sold my gun before I went to the woods. Not that I am less humane than others, but I did not perceive that my feelings were much affected. I did not pity the fishes nor the worms. This was habit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The event combined with Beams leading up to it for the look of force adapted to the wiser... Usages of age, but it's both there And not there, like washing or sawdust in the sunlight, At the back of the mind, where we live now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »