Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the m...ask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw when ...commonplace doubts and cares assail us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in th...is they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My intention is not to provoke but to appease; not to assail but to defend; not to conquer but to protect my loyal subjects and he...reditary properties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Jewel of jeopardy that peril doth assail, False and untrue, enticed oft to treason,... Enemy to youth (that most may I bewail!), Ah, bitter sweet! infecting as the poison, Thou farest as fruit that with the frost is taken: Today ready ripe, tomorrow all too shaken.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We lay long in the immense tide Of shade and shadowy desire... And saw the dusk assail the wall, The black surge, mounting, crash the stone! Companion of this lust, we fall, I said lest we should die alone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome a...fter satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »