The Greeks were the classicists of antiquity and they are still today the preeminent classicists. What marked all they did, the cl...assic stamp, is a direct simplicity in expressing the significance of actual life. It was there the Greek artists and poets found what they wanted. The unfamiliar and the extraordinary were on the whole repellent to them and they detested every form of exaggeration. Their desire was to express truthfully what lay at hand, which they saw as beautiful and full of meaning. But that was not the Roman way. When not directly under Greek guidance the Roman did not perceive beauty in every-day matters, or indeed care to do so. Beauty was unimportant to him. Life in his eyes was a very serious and a very arduous business, and he had no time for what he would have thought of as a mere decoration of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A few hours' mountain climbing turns a rogue and a saint into two roughly equal creatures. Weariness is the shortest path to equal...ity and fraternity--and liberty is finally added by sleep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But this place is too cold for hell. I'll devil-porter it no further; I had thought to have let in some of all professions that go... the primrose way to th' everlasting bonfire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day. The way of the wicked ...is like deep darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"This is black, darling." "Yes, it's black."... "No, it's white." "Ah, so it is." "We'll go." "We're going." "I don't want to go." "Then, so be it." That's the way it used to be. For the longest time, he'd wander down any path my mind wished to take, but now this same man has become a stranger. Friend, is there anyone who knows a THING about men?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By night and by day I shall seek your truth, O Lord, light my path, show the way.... What is beyond the hills that I climb, Lord, clear the mist away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way ...is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his pro...per quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon ...marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »