In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant.... My depression is the most faithful mistress... I have known--no wonder, then, that I return the love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The male professor at Quinsy College ... by his very presence precipitated a thousand desperate necessities, a particular situatio...n, needless to say, that often put in ludicrous but privileged ascendence those who would be gentlemen that late were grooms. He could act like a churl, use his hands for locomotion, or look like the Expansible Pig, the girls didn't care--instans instanter, he became a combination of father confessor, confidant, marriage counselor, friend, adept, and phantom lover.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Is it the breath, merely, of the performer on a wind- instrument, or the skillful, supple fingers of the performer on a stringed i...nstrument which evoke those tones which lay upon us a spell of such power, and awaken that inexpressible feeling, akin to nothing else on earth--the sense of a distant spirit world, and of our own higher life in it? Is it not, rather, the mind, the soul, the heart, which merely employ those bodily organs to give forth into our external life what we feel in our inner depths?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In looking back over the college careers of those who for various reasons have been prominent in undergraduate life ... one cannot... help noticing that these men have nearly always shown from the start an interest in the lives of their fellow students. A large acquaintance means that many persons are dependent on a man and conversely that he himself is dependent on many. Success necessarily means larger responsibilities, and responsibilities mean many friends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »