It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of th...ese little ones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the m...illstone weighs on the breast.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck: it endears her to the men who want to make their mammet of her, but sh...e is never allowed to think that their popping eyes actually see her. Her breasts ... are not parts of a person but lures slung around her neck, to be kneaded and twisted like magic putty, or mumbled and mouthed like lolly ices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Suddenly, like a chestnut falling out of burr, he was shed naked and glistening onto a soft, fecund earth, leaving behind him the ...hard rind of worldly knowledge and experience.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 »
I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spel...ling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »