It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in th...e islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man is fallen; nature is erect, and serves as a differential thermometer, detecting the presence or absence of the divine sentimen...t in man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptib...ly and explicitly within himself, and not care what the world thinks. The mass of human beings, however, are not made that way; and many people have been saved from crime or sin by the simple dislike of doing things they would not like to confess ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is unconditional love, ...the ability to finish my sentences for me when I am sobbing, a complete and total willingness to pour their hearts out to me, and the ability to tell me why the meat thermometer isn't supposed to touch the bone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wish all the foolish days of my life which I have spent at American watering-places thinking I was amused at five changes of dre...ss a day, dinner parties with the thermometer at 90 degrees, etc., could have been given to Ghent and Bruges. What relics of a grand and poetical and useful race! What visions of history! What gems of art and architecture! Why, just one look at the Hotel de Ville in Ghent, with its facade of richest flamboyant Gothic and one of its sides in the Italian Renaissance, is worth two balls at Delmonico's.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As for the inlet or outlet of Walden, I have not yet discovered any but rain and snow and evaporation, though perhaps, with a ther...mometer and a line, such places may be found.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One fellow I was dating in medical school ... was a veterinarian and he wanted to get married. I said, but you're going to be movi...ng to Minneapolis, and he said, oh, you can quit and I'll take care of you. I said, "Go."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »