Have we no culture, no refinement,--but skill only to live coarsely and serve the Devil?--to acquire a little worldly wealth, or f...ame, or liberty, and make a false show with it, as if we were all husk and shell, with no tender and living kernel to us? Shall our institutions be like those chestnut burs which contain abortive nuts, perfect only to prick the fingers?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon,... My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage, And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don't in the least know o...r care where our practically infinite energies come from or will bring us to.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the great natural phenomena is the way in which a tube of toothpaste suddenly empties itself when it hears that you are pla...nning a trip, so that when you come to pack it is just a twisted shell of its former self, with not even a cubic millimeter left to be squeezed out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Billy: You dropped some shell in there. Ted: It's all right. Makes it crunchier that way. You like French toast crunchy, don'...t you?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a st...urgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a herm...it crab or a snail.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »