It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a corre...spondence of the beyond.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most personal correspondence of today consists of letters the first half of which are given over to an indexed statement of why th...e writer hasn't written before, followed by one paragraph of small talk, with the remainder devoted to reasons why it is imperative that the letter be brought to a close.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the game of "Whist for two," usually called "Correspondence," the lady plays what card she likes: the gentleman simply follows ...suit. If she leads with "Queen of Diamonds," however, he may, if he likes, offer the "Ace of Hearts": and, if she plays "Queen of Hearts," and he happens to have no Heart left, he usually plays "Knave of Clubs."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untr...ied, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence o...f heaven to earth, of matter to mind, of the part to the whole, is our guide. As there is a science of stars, called astronomy; and science of quantities, called mathematics; a science of qualities, called chemistry; so there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is in the nature of allegory, as opposed to symbolism, to beg the question of absolute reality. The allegorist avails himself o...f a formal correspondence between "ideas" and "things," both of which he assumes as given; he need not inquire whether either sphere is "real" or whether, in the final analysis, reality consists in their interaction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thirty-five years ago, when I was a college student, people wrote letters. The businessman who read, the lawyer who traveled; the ...dressmaker in evening school, my unhappy mother, our expectant neighbor: all conducted an often large and varied correspondence. It was the accustomed way of ordinarily educated people to occupy the world beyond their own small and immediate lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ex-Presidential situation has its advantages, but with them are certain drawbacks. The correspondence is large. The meritoriou...s demands on one are large. More independent out than in place, but still something of the bondage of the place that was willingly left. On the whole, however, I find many reasons to be content.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To every instant there is a correspondence in something outside time. This world here and now cannot be followed by a Beyond, for ...the Beyond is eternal, hence it cannot be in temporal contact with this world here and now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is an eternal vital correspondence between our blood and the sun: there is an eternal vital correspondence between our nerve...s and the moon. If we get out of contact and harmony with the sun and moon, then both turn into great dragons of destruction against us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »