Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that ent...hralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Drinking tents were full, glasses began to clink in carriages, hampers to be unpacked, tempting provisions to be set forth, knives... and forks to rattle, champagne corks to fly, eyes to brighten that were not dull before, and pickpockets to count their gains during the last heat. The attention so recently strained on one object of interest, was now divided among a hundred; and, look where you would, there was a motley assemblage of feasting, talking, begging, gambling and mummery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the sun shall be darkened, when the stars shall be thrown down,... when the mountains shall be set moving, when the pregnant camels shall be neglected, when the savage beasts shall be mustered, when the seas shall be set boiling, when the souls shall be coupled, when the buried infant shall be asked for what sin she was slain, when the scrolls shall be unrolled, when the heaven shall be stripped off, when Hell shall be set blazing, when Paradise shall be brought nigh, then shall a soul know what it has produced.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not unkind to say, from the standpoint of scenery alone, that if many, and indeed most, of our American national parks were ...to be set down on the continent of Europe thousands of Americans would journey all the way across the ocean in order to see their beauties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute. There is no liberty... except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity--for where will the stone go, once it is quarried?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same and everywhere one and the... same in her efficiency and power of action; that is, nature's laws and ordinances whereby all things come to pass and change from one form to another, are everywhere and always; so that there should be one and the same method of understanding the nature of all things whatsoever, namely, through nature's universal laws and rules.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a great pity--but 'tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end-...-provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The expressions of the poet cannot be analyzed; his sentence is one word, whose syllables are words. There are indeed no words qui...te worthy to be set to his music. But what matter if we do not hear the words always, if we hear the music?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
True love does not quarrel for slight reasons, such mistakes as mutual acquaintances can explain away, but, alas, however slight t...he apparent cause, only for adequate and fatal and everlasting reasons, which can never be set aside.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »