What a perpetual disappointment is actual society, even of the virtuous and gifted! After interviews have been compassed with long... foresight, we must be tormented presently by baffled blows, by sudden, unseasonable apathies, by epilepsies of wit and of animal spirits, in the heyday of friendship and thought. Our faculties do not play us true, and both parties are relieved by solitude.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To the men of this world, to the animal strength and spirits, to the men of practical power, whilst immersed in it, the man of ide...as appears out of his reason. They alone gave reason.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Humans are amphibians--half spirit and half animal.... As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit ti...me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fox, he felt, had never seen his past disposed of like a fall of water. He had never measured off his day in moments: another-...-another--another. But now, thrown down so deeply in himself, into the darkness of the well, surprised by pain and hunger, might he not revert to an earlier condition, regain capacities which formerly were useless to him, pass from animal to Henry, become human in his prison, X his days, count, wait, listen for another--another--another--another?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come into animal presence. No man is so guileless as... the serpent. The lonely white rabbit on the roof is a star twitching its ears at the rain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What joy when the insouciant armadillo glances at us and doesn't... quicken his trotting across the track into the palm brush. What is this joy? That no animal falters, but knows what it must do?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »