So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody c...an say. But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treachery, and the sacrifice or wealth and chastity, which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is assuredly no more effectual method of clearing up one's own mind on any subject than by talking it over, so to speak, wit...h men of real power and grasp, who have considered it from a totally different point of view.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing--to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all ...thoughts. Not a select party.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not object to Gladstone's always having the ace of trumps up his sleeve, but only to his pretence that God had put it there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man. In the highest confidence th...ere is always a flavor of doubt--a feeling, half instinctive and half logical, that, after all, the scoundrel may have something up his sleeve.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let the dry eyes perceive Others betray the lamenting lies of their losses... By the curve of the nude mouth or the laugh up the sleeve.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His raising her up made her feel like a little girl again when she had a father... who brushed the dirt from her eye. Indeed, she took hold of herself, knowing she owed Jesus a life, as sure-fire as a trump card.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-ab...sorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of an irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »