We have not the motive to prepare ourselves for a "life-work" of teaching, of social work--we know that we would lay it down with ...hallelujah in the height of our success, to make a home for the right man. And all the time in the background of our consciousness rings the warning that perhaps the right man will never come. A great love is given to very few. Perhaps this make-shift time filler of a job is our life work after all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The President should not be required to take up the question of the selection of a successor before the last offices of affection ...and respect have been paid to the dead. If the proprieties of an occasion as sad as that which now overshadows us are observed, possibly one-half of the brief time allowed is gone before, with due regard to the decencies of life, the President and those with whom he should advise can take up the consideration of the grave duty of selecting a head for one of the greatest Departments of the Government.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work--it is an indication on Nature's par...t that she did not mean him to be a head worker.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered for... a head cold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I wasn't at all prepared for the avalanche of criticism that overwhelmed me. You would have thought I had murdered someone, and... perhaps I had, but only to give her successor a chance to live. It was a very sad business indeed to be made to feel that my success depended solely, or at least in large part, on a head of hair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dead drunk is the term I think of,... insensible, neither cool nor warm, without a head or a foot. To be drunk is to be intimate with a fool.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »