Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks tha...t he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A complacent old Don of Divinity Used to boast of his daughter's virginity:... "They must have been dawdlin', The students of Magdalen-- It couldn't have happened at Trinity."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
More than the changing of institutions we need the development of a national conscience, and the upbuilding of national character.... Men may boast of the aristocracy of blood, may glory in the aristocracy of talent, and be proud of the aristocracy of wealth, but there is one aristocracy which must ever outrank them all, and that is the aristocracy of character; and it is the women of a country who help to mold its character, and to influence if not determine its destiny; and in the political future of our nation woman will not have done what she could if she does not endeavor to have our republic stand foremost among the nations of the earth, wearing sobriety as a crown and righteousness as a garment and a girdle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of ...the brave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then England's ground, farewell. Sweet soil, adieu, My mother and my nurse that bears me yet!... Where e'er I wander, boast of this I can: Though banished, yet a true-born Englishman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical c...omposition.... They both speak by and to the same organs; the bodies in which both of them are clothed may be said to be of the same substance, their affections are kindred, and almost identical, not necessarily differing even in degree; Poetry sheds no tears "such as Angels weep," but natural and human tears; she can boast of no celestial ichor that distinguishes her vital juices from those of prose; the same human blood circulates through the veins of them both.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make slaves of oursel...ves! to sell the most precious property we boast, our time;--and to sacrifice it to every prattling impertinent who chooses to demand it!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »