Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other dir...ection, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let me live in my house by the side of the road-- It's here the race of men go by.... They are good, they are bad, they are weak, they are strong Wise, foolish--so am I;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This side of the truth, You may not see, my son,... King of your blue eyes In the blinding country of youth, That all is undone, Under the unminding skies....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He had come down, He said, to clean the earth Of the dirtiness of war.... Now tell of why His power failed Him there? His power did not fail. It was that, simply, He found how much the people wanted war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting o...ut at it, and searchlights feeling their way across the sky like antennae, and the earth shaking snort of the bombs and the whimper of shrapnel pieces when they come down to patter on the roof.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers ...of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame. Only those books come down which deserve to last.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When they sometimes Come down the stairs at night and stand perplexed... Behind the door and headboard of the bed, Brushing their chalky skull with chalky fingers, With sounds like the dry rattling of a shutter,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You must not feel too anxious about the little folks with you.... Their little peculiarities, which with your older judgment do no...t seem favorable, will gradually disappear as they get older. It is best to overlook most things, and not be too solicitous about perfection. I am afraid you will think I will spoil our children by too little government. Perhaps we do err on the other side, but you must come down and instruct us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hannah Hunter: Medicine is the most noble and unselfish-- Col. John Marlowe: Sure, noble profession, noble oath, lanterns hel...d on high--so high they won't admit they're gropin' for.... There was a girl, not much older than that boy in there. I wasn't unfair then, understand. Because they used a lot of fancy words that an ordinary section hand wouldn't understand. So I held her down, while two of them worked on her. I trusted doctors then, believed in 'em, because I was in love, and I didn't want to see her die. A tumor they said it was, and it had to come out right away. So they stuck a leather strap in her mouth so she could bite off her screams, while they cut a way to get in there. And what did they find--nothing! Oh, they were sorry. Sure. They made a mistake. They had something they could talk about before their next little experiment. But what about me. They left me beggin' her not to die. And I lost my wife.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »