My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.... For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... most of all [the actor] will love the boys and girls, the men and women, who sit in the cheapest seats, in the very last row o...f the top gallery. They have given more than they can afford to come. In the most self-effacing spirit of fellowship they are listening to catch every word, watching to miss no slightest gesture or expression. To save his life the actor cannot help feeling these nearest and dearest. He cannot help wishing to do his best for them. He cannot help loving them best of all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the d...evotion come in--that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I no longer fit in with these times. Great changes can come in four years. These socialistic notions of government are not of my d...ay. When I was in office, tax reduction, debt reduction, tariff stability and economy were the things to which I gave attention. We succeeded on those lines.... These new ideas call for new men to develop them.... We cannot put everything up to the Government without overburdening it. I have recently been told that I am one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease.... I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If, for instance, a man asserts the value of individual liberty over the merely political commonweal, his neighbor still tolerates... him,... sometimes even sustains him, but never the State. Its officer, as a living man, may have human virtues and a thought in his brain, but as the tool of an institution, a jailor or constable it may be, he is not a whit superior to his prison key or his staff. Herein is the tragedy: that men doing outrage to their proper natures, even those called wise and good, lend themselves to perform the office of inferior and brutal ones. Hence come war and slavery in; and what else may not come in by this opening? But certainly there are modes by which a man may put bread in his mouth which will not prejudice him as a companion and neighbor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in. The ice in... the pond at length begins to be honeycombed, and I can set my heel in it as I walk. Fogs and rains and warmer suns are gradually melting the snow; the days have grown sensibly longer; and I see how I shall get through the winter without adding to my wood-pile, for large fires are no longer necessary. I am on the alert for the first signs of spring, to hear the chance note of some arriving bird, or the striped squirrel's chirp, for his stores must be now nearly exhausted, or see the woodchuck venture out of his winter quarters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think what everybody calls a miracle is just common sense.... You can look at the attitudes when people come in. That's why they... call it a miracle. These are black kids and they're not supposed to know the things they know and achieve the way they are achieving.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You live on hopes, I guess. You always dream that someday you might have a lot of money, your ship might come in. But if the ship ...doesn't come in, I'm going to work as long as I can.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »