Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the pr...ess but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sickness disgusts us with death, and we wish to get well, which is a way of wishing to live. But weakness and suffering, with mani...fold bodily woes, soon discourage the invalid from trying to regain ground: he tires of those respites which are but snares, of that faltering strength, those ardors cut short, and that perpetual lying in wait for the next attack.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower; he f...leeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest.... It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas ...destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »