Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute... itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's something about the dead silence of an office building at night. Not quite real. The traffic down below is something that ...didn't have anything to do with me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have just come from the beach (to find your letter), and I like it much. Everything there is on a grand and generous scale,--sea...weed, water, and sand; and even the dead fishes, horses, and hogs have a rank, luxuriant odor; great shad-nets spread to dry; crabs and horseshoes crawling over the sand; clumsy boats, only for service, dancing like sea-fowl over the surf, and ships afar off going about their business.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The first general store opened on the 'Cold Saturday' of the winter of 1833 ... Mrs. Mary Miller, daughter of the store's promoter..., recorded in a letter: 'Chickens and birds fell dead from their roosts, cows ran bellowing through the streets'; but she failed to state what effect the freeze had on the gala occasion of the store opening.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Go; and if that word have not quite killed thee, Ease me with death by bidding me got too.... Oh, if it have, let my word work on me, And a just office on a murderer do. Except it be too late to kill me so, Being double dead: going, and bidding go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentiment ...in mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the dead, to th...e last codicil and letter. They rule this world, and the living are but their executors. Such foundation too have our lectures and our sermons, commonly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; an...d we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line, conjecturing a larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and valor and generosity we have. The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity. They seem as solitary, and the letter in which they are printed as rare and curious, as ever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You've got to catch it through details, like the early morning s...unlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house. The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven's "Pastoral." A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »