A philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded on n...othing but faith: and this is the reason, I suspect, why the novelties in philosophy are only in elaboration, and never in fundamentals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law... And discipline should be in school and state....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain--... That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar: Which the same I would rise to explain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the histories of Blacks and Jews in bondage and out of bondage, have been blood histories pursued through our kindred searchin...gs for self-determination. Let this blood be a stain of honor that we share. Let us not now become enemies to ourselves and to each other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew, In prison pine with bondage and restraint;... And with remembrance of the greater grief To banish the less, I find my chief relief.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. These are such sentences as were written while gras...s grew and water ran. It is no small recommendation when a book will stand the test of mere unobstructed sunshine and daylight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I should say that the most prominent scientific men of our country, and perhaps of this age, are either serving the arts and not p...ure science, or are performing faithful but quite subordinate labors in particular departments. They make no steady and systematic approaches to the central fact.... There is wanting constant and accurate observation with enough of theory to direct and discipline it. But, above all, there is wanting genius.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So, too, no doubt, Homer had his Homer, and Orpheus his Orpheus, in the dim antiquity which preceded them. The mythological system... of the ancients,--and it is still the mythology of the moderns, the poem of mankind,--interwoven so wonderfully with their astronomy, and matching in grandeur and harmony the architecture of the heavens themselves, seems to point to a time when a mightier genius inhabited the earth. But, after all, man is the great poet, and not Homer nor Shakespeare; and our language itself, and the common arts of life, are his work. Poetry is so universally true and independent of experience that it does not need any particular biography to illustrate it, but we refer it sooner or later to some Orpheus or Linus, and after ages to the genius of humanity and the gods themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »