The whole land seems aroused to discussion on the province of woman, and I am glad of it. We are willing to bear the brunt of the ...storm, if we can only be the means of making a break in that wall of public opinion which lies right in the way of woman's rights, true dignity, honor and usefulness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In marble halls as white as milk, Lined with a skin as soft as silk,... Within a fountain crystal-clear, A golden apple doth appear. No doors there are to this stronghold, Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a ...man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, but store up ...for yourselves treasures in heaven...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, some ...present momentary interest, some supposed slight, or some humour, always breaks in upon, and oversets their most prudent resolutions and schemes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet, a man of the world should know them. They are the outworks of Manners... and Decency, which would be too often broken in upon, if it were not for that defence, which keeps the enemy at a proper distance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Go, smiling souls, your new-built cages break, In heaven you'll learn to sing, ere here to speak,... Nor let the milky fonts that bathe your thirst Be your delay; The place that calls you hence is, at the worst, Milk all the way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Construed ... as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certai...n set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses--those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal c...onsciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »