Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming, ...that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. But, and that is the great question, will I eve...r be able to write anything great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer? I hope so, oh, I hope so very much, for I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abunda...nce, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This nation will remain a neutral nation, but I cannot ask that every American remain neutral in thought as well. Even a neutral h...as a right to take account of facts, even a neutral cannot be asked to close his mind or close his conscience. I have said not once but many times that I have seen war and that I hate war; I say that again and again. I hope the United States will keep out of this war, I believe that it will. And I give you assurance and reassurance that every effort of your government will be directed toward that end. As long as it remains within my power to prevent there will be no blackout of peace in the United States.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people. While we have class and sectarian schools th...e parties supporting them will not give their fullest aid toward building up the public school system. If all of the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money and energies on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals. To be a success a republic must have a homogeneous people, and to do this it must have homogeneous schools.... I grow more and more opposed to [sectarian schools].LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing is to be compared to the misery of being bound without Love, bound to one, & preferring another. That is a... Punishment which you do not deserve.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady ...it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »