Spring-time in Florida is not a matter of peeping violets or bursting buds merely. It is a riot of color in nature--glistening gre...en leaves, pink, blue, purple, yellow blossoms that fairly stagger the visitor from the north. The miles of hyacinths lie like an undulating carpet on the surface of the river and divide reluctantly when the slow-moving alligators push their way log-like across. the nights are white nights for the moon shines with dazzling splendor, or in the absence of that goddess, the soft darkness creeps down laden with innumerable scents. The heavy fragrance of magnolias mingled with the delicate sweetness of jasmine and wild roses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O Bee, yoked with greed... for a drink of sap, the jasmine bud hasn't even opened its petals in the least, and yet you rub against it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The weight of its body cleverly suspended... by its own wings, the bee sips at the bud of the night-blooming jasmine, opening it, greedy for its juice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Chile consents to do all we can reasonably demand. My regret is that our Government blustered and bullied. President [Benjamin] Ha...rrison argued in his message like a prosecutor--made the most of the case against our weak sister. Forbearance, charity, friendship, arbitration should have been in our words and thoughts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Latin America is very fond of the word "hope." We like to be called the "continent of hope." Candidates for deputy, senator, presi...dent, call themselves "candidates of hope." This hope is really something like a promise of heaven, an IOU whose payment is always being put off. It is put off until the next legislative campaign, until next year, until the next century.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as... birds, high as prices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »