I now first began to be seriously molested by the black fly, a very small but perfectly formed fly of that color, about one tenth ...of an inch long, which I first felt, and then saw, in swarms about me, as I sat by a wider and more than usually doubtful fork in this dark forest path. The hunters tell bloody stories about them,--how they settle in a ring about your neck, before you know it, and are wiped off in great numbers with your blood. But remembering that I had a wash in my knapsack,... I made haste to apply it to my face and hands, and was glad to find it effectual ... not only against black flies, but all the insects that molested us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women generally should be taught that the rough life men must needs lead, in order to be healthy, useful and manly men, would prec...lude the possibility of a great degree of physical perfection, especially in color. It is not a bad reflection to know that in all probability the human animal has endowments enough without aspiring to be the beauty of all creation as well as the ruler.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line--the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in A...sia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water when ...we need to.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since the quarrel Will bear no color for the thing he is,... Fashion it thus: that what he is, augmented, Would run to these and these extremities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »