It's a rare parent who can see his or her child clearly and objectively. At a school board meeting I attended . . . the only defin...ition of a gifted child on which everyone in the audience could agree was "mine."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Have no fellowship with one that is mightier and richer than thyself: for how agree the kettle and the earthen pot together? For i...f the one be smitten against the other, it shall be broken.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
all the reports on his conduct agree That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a saint,... For in everything he did he served the Greater Community.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If music and sweet poetry agree, As they must needs (the sister and the brother),... Then must the love be great 'twixt thee and me, Because thou lov'st the one, and I the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are now going through a period of demolition. In morals, in social life, in politics, in medicine, and in religion there is a u...niversal upturning of foundations. But the day of reconstruction seems to be looming, and now the grand question is: Are there any sure and universal principles that will evolve a harmonious system in which we shall all agree?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We all agree now--by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty--that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful becaus...e it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves. Unluckily, the matter does not end there: a rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I for... one do not agree.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »