And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burnin...g for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The hand holds no chalk And each part of the whole falls off... And cannot know it knew, except Here and there, in cold pockets Of remembrance, whispers out of time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the c...hance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioneered, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honour and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. 'Tis a step out of the chalk ...circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cann...ot hear what you say to the contrary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they c...halk up. We have allowed quantitative standards, so central to the adult economic system, to become the principal yardstick for our definition of our children's worth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of... our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »