And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me n...othing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dandyism is especially likely to appear in those transitional ages in which democracy is not yet all-powerful and the aristocracy ...is only partially faltering and debased. In the confusion of such times certain men, déclassé, disgusted, idle, but all endowed with native strength, may conceive the project of founding a new kind of aristocracy, which will be all the more difficult to destroy as it will be based on the most precious and indestructible faculties, and on the God-given gifts which work and wealth cannot bestow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the school should be an appendage of the family state, and modeled on its primary principle, which is, to train the ignorant a...nd weak by self-sacrificing labor and love; and to bestow the most on the weakest, the most undeveloped, and the most sinful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In matters of usage there are two extremes. At the extreme right are the purists, the standpatters, the rigid traditionalists who ...brook little or no change and who go by the rules--as many rules as they can recall or invent. They may not speak or write brilliantly, but they are grammatically unassailable--except when they forget some rule or misinterpret one.... At the extreme left are the permissivists, the heretics who argue that there is no such thing as "correct" usage. They maintain that usage is what people say, but they neglect to disclose what people they are talking about--most people in general or most intelligent people or most educated people or most writing people or what. Oddly enough, despite the loose approach of the permissivists, who have made some headway in the schools, there is evidence that people do crave authority in matters of language, they do ask for rules and rulings. They do not seem to appreciate the freedom that the permissivists are so eager to bestow upon them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great, the rich, the powerful, too often bestow their favours upon their inferiors in the manner they bestow their scraps upon... their dogs, so as neither to oblige man nor dogs. It is no wonder if favours, benefits, and even charities thus bestowed ungraciously, should be as coldly and faintly acknowledged.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"The unities, sir,' he said, "are a completeness--a kind of universal dovetailedness with regard to place and time--a sort of gene...ral oneness, if I may be allowed to use so strong an expression. I take those to be the dramatic unities, so far as I have been enabled to bestow attention upon them, and I have read much upon the subject, and thought much."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My lute, be as thou wert when thou didst grow With thy green mother in some shady grove,... When immelodious winds but made thee move, And birds their ramage did on thee bestow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, for ...that is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives... a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »