Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over... all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whatever may be the reason, whether it was that Hitler thought he might get away with what he had got without fighting for it, or ...whether it was that after all the preparations were not sufficiently complete--however, one thing is certain: he missed the bus.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am told that Duclos' book is not in vogue in Paris, and that it is being violently criticized, apparently because readers unders...tand it; and being intelligible is no longer the fashion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in th...e year, if you will do two things at a time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you love music, hear it; go to operas, concerts and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist on your neither piping nor fiddli...ng yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light.... Few things would mortify me more than to see you bearing a part in a concert, with a fiddle under your chin, or a pipe in your mouth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Though we cannot totally change our nature, we may in great measure correct it by reflection and philosophy; and some philosophy i...s a very necessary companion in this world, where, even to the most fortunate, the chances are greatly against happiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challenge ...is; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the course of the world, a man must very often put on an easy, frank countenance, upon very disagreeable occasions; he must see...m pleased, when he is very much otherwise; he must be able to accost and receive with smiles, those whom he would much rather meet with swords.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well on the nature of man; will profoundly ana...lyse the head, the heart, the reason, the will, the passions, the sentiments, and all those subdivisions of we know not what; and yet, unfortunately, he knows nothing of man.... He views man as he does colours in Sir Isaac Newton's prism, where only the capital ones are seen; but an experienced dyer knows all their various shades and gradations, together with the result of their several mixtures.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »