God sent children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race--to enlarge our hears; and to make us unselfish and full of ...kindly sympathies and affections; to give our souls higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion; and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A novel which survives, which withstands and outlives time, does do something more than merely survive. It does not stand still. I...t accumulates round itself the understanding of all these persons who bring to it something of their own. It acquires associations, it becomes a form of experience in itself, so that two people who meet can often make friends, find an approach to each other, because of this one great common experience they have had ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the... course of a year no matter how absurd that opinion might be. We see every day in politics, in business, in social life, large masses of people brought to embrace the most revolutionary ideas, sometimes within a few days. It is all a question of getting hold of them in the right way and working on their weak points.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring th...e majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have no conscience, none, but I would not like to bring a soul into this world. When it sinned and when it suffered something li...ke a dead hand would fall on me,--"You did it, you, for your own pleasure you created this thing! See your work!" If it lived to be eighty it would always hang like a millstone round my neck, have the right to demand good from me, and curse me for its sorrow. A parent is only like to God: if his work turns out bad so much the worse for him; he dare not wash his hands of it. Time and years can never bring the day when you can say to your child, "Soul, what have I to do with you?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise... From death, you numberless infinities Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every man that sings a song Keeps Parnell in his mind... For Parnell was a proud man, No prouder trod the ground, And a proud man's a lovely man So pass the bottle round.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »