The modern Christian is a man who has consented to say all the prayers in the liturgy, provided you will let him go straight to be...d and sleep quiet afterward. All his prayers begin with "Now I lay me down to sleep," and he is forever looking forward to the time when he shall go to his "long rest." He has consented to perform certain old-established charities, too, after a fashion, but he does not wish to hear of any new-fangled ones; he does n't wish to have any supplementary articles added to the contract, to fit it to the present time. He shows the whites of his eyes on the Sabbath, and the blacks all the rest of the week. The evil is not merely a stagnation of blood, but a stagnation of spirit as well.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The soul of me is very selfish. I have gone my way after a fashion that made me the center of the plan. And you who are so individ...ual, who are so independent a spirit, whose soul is also a kingdom, have been so loyal, so forgiving, so self-sacrificing in your willingness to live my life. Nothing but love cold have accomplished so wonderful a thing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To define it rudely but not inaptly, engineering ... is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with ...two after a fashion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O thanks be to the great God I got somebody to give me what I badly wanted to put some heart up into me youve no chances at all in... this place like you used long ago I wish somebody would write me a loveletter....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not bedding, but a "relationship," is what women seek. And in this difference it is impossible to fail to acknowledge a distinct s...uperiority of the feminine sensibility, however cantish this may sound. Whereas men are overwhelmed by the strong pulsations of the body, women remain free to bestow a wider meaning to the corporeal elements of the erotic. The erotic does not end in spastic contractions and reflex discharges; it transcends them, to reach into the ethereal realms of memory and feeling, like a note that reverberates long after the string has pulsated. Woman may resort to her body in ways congruous with her aims and in a fashion is apt to be ranked as "manipulative." But only when she is long remembered and continually desired, as if by a cyclically renewed, ever kindled thirst; only when her image fills to capacity the consciousness of the man she has chosen, and stretches temporally beyond the meager boundaries of physiologic immediacy; only then does she claim to have won. When her immanent presence projects across time and space to leave a profound impress on another being: then she has "scored."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay it. I simply wish to refuse allegiance to the State, to withdraw... and stand aloof from it effectually. I do not care to trace the course of my dollar, if I could, till it buys a man or a musket to shoot one with,--the dollar is innocent,--but I am concerned to trace the effects of my allegiance. In fact, I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make what use and get what advantage of her I can, as is usual in such cases.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Jesuits were quite balked by those Indians who, being burned at the stake, suggested new modes of tortures to their tormentors.... Being superior to physical suffering, it sometimes chanced that they were superior to any consolation which the missionaries could offer; and the law to do as you would be done by fell with less persuasiveness on the ears of those who, for their part, did not care how they were done by, who loved their enemies after a new fashion, and came very near freely forgiving them all they did.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One story recounts that a Tennessean, after a single day in the then almost impenetrable tangle of cypress, briars, and canebreaks..., pestered by myriads of mosquitoes, and bogged in the heavy gumbo mud, declared: "Arkansas is not part of the world for which Jesus Christ died--I want none of it."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Darling, will you come home today... after a few hours, or at noon, or a little later, or when the whole day's passed?" A young wife with tearful words stuck in her throat spoils the departure of her man who wishes to go to a land that takes a hundred days to reach.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »