We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards the ...corn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Carlyle's are not, in the common sense, works of art in their origin and aim; and yet, perhaps, no living English writer evinces a...n equal literary talent. They are such works of art only as the plow and corn-mill and steam-engine,--not as pictures and statues. Others speak with greater emphasis to scholars, as such, but none so earnestly and effectually to all who can read. Others give their advice, he gives his sympathy also.... He does not need to husband his pearl, but excels by a greater humanity and sincerity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One thing is plain for all men of common sense and common conscience, that here, here in America, is the home of man. After all th...e deductions which are to be made of for our pitiful politics, which stake every gravest national question on the silly die, whether James or whether Jonathan shall sit in the chair and hold the purse; after all the deduction is made for our frivolities and insanities, there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty, which, when it loses its balance, redresses itself presently, which offers opportunity to the human mind not known in any other region.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To stand on common ground here and there gritty with pebbles... yet elsewhere 'fine and mellow-- uncommon fine for ploughing' there to labor planting the vegetable wordsLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we have travelled over..., but frequently neglect to gather up experiences as we go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No one lives in this room without confronting the whiteness of the wall... behind the poems, planks of books, photographs of dead heroines. Without contemplating last and late the true nature of poetry. The drive to connect. The dream of a common language.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations an...d sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self- Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »