I know what it is to have little, and I know what it is to have plenty. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of ...being well-fed and of going hungry, of having plenty and of being in need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The proclamation and repetition of first principles is a constant feature of life in our democracy. Active adherence to these prin...ciples, however, has always been considered un-American. We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Blind with love, my daughter has cried nightly for horses,... those long-necked marchers and churners that she has mastered, any and all, reigning them in like a circus hand....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No man in America has ever stood up so persistently and effectively for the dignity of human nature, knowing himself for a man, an...d the equal of any and all governments. In that sense he was the most American of us all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Farewell, Love, and all thy laws for ever: Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more;... Senec and Plato call me from thy lore, To perfect wealth my wit for to endeavour.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Imagination may be defined to be, the use which the Reason makes of the material world. Shakespeare possesses the power of sub...ordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses to creation like a bauble from hand to hand, and uses it to embody any caprice of thought that is upper-most in his mind. The remotest spaces of nature are visited, and the farthest sundered things are brought together, by a subtle spiritual connection. We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Films are seen in large, silent, darkened theaters, where intense light beams are projected from behind toward luminous surfaces i...n front. There is an enforced and anonymous collectivity of the audience because, for any screening, all viewers are physically present at the same time in the relatively enclosed space of the theater. In contrast to this cocoon-like, enveloping situation is the fragmentary, dispersed, and varied nature of television reception. The darkness is dissolved, the anonymity removed.... While the aura of cinema spectatorship produces hypnotic fascination, the atmosphere of television enables just the opposite--because the lights are more likely to be on, one can get up and return, do several things at once, watch casually, talk to other people, or even decide to turn the television off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »