Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it. Some spoil them when they are young, and then quarrel with them when t...hey are grown up, for having been spoiled; some love them like mothers, and attend only to the bodily health and strength of the hopes of their family, solemnize his birthday, and rejoice, like the subjects of the Great Mogul, at the increase of his bulk: while others, minding, as they think, only essentials, take pains and pleasure to see in their heir, all their favourite weaknesses and imperfections.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It will be no excuse to an idle and untoward servant, who would not attend his business by candle-light, to plead that he had not ...broad sun-shine. The candle, that is set up in us, shines bright enough for all our purposes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You are wonderful. I love and honor you.... [ellipsis in source] Lead your own life, attend to your charities, cultivate yourself,... travel when you wish, bring up the children, run your house. I'll give you all the freedom you wish and all the money I can but--leave me my business and politics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A heavy sentence, my most sovereign liege, And all unlooked-for from Your Highness' mouth.... A dearer merit, not so deep a maim As to be cast forth in the common air, Have I deserved at Your Highness' hands. The language I have learned these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me nor more Than an unstringed viol or a harp. Or like a cunning instrument cased up, Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony. Within my mouth you have enjailed my tongue, Doubly portcullised with my teeth and lips, And dull unfeeling barren ignorance Is made my jailer to attend on me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficient... accuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us; but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The route through childhood is shaped by many forces, and it differs for each of us. Our biological inheritance, the temperament w...ith which we are born, the care we receive, our family relationships, the place where we grow up, the schools we attend, the culture in which we participate, and the historical period in which we live--all these affect the paths we take through childhood and condition the remainder of our lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while,... So, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, And smile, smile, smile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »