Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporti...ng itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of h...unger.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at ra...ndom. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we "can't bear to throw away."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The moralist and the revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx exploded a hundred tons of dynamite beneath the mo...ralist position, and we are still living in the echo of that tremendous crash. But already, somewhere or other, the sappers are at work and fresh dynamite is being tamped in place to blow Marx at the moon. Then Marx, or somebody like him, will come back with yet more dynamite, and so the process continues, to an end we cannot foresee.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of ro...om at the top.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man shall perhaps rush by and trample down plants as high as his head, and cannot be said to know that they exist, though he may... have cut many tons of them, littered his stables with them, and fed them to his cattle for years. Yet, if he ever favorably attends to them, he may be overcome by their beauty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is nothing here [Civita Vecchia] to see. They have not even a cathedral, with eleven tons of solid silver archbishops in the... back room; and they do not show you any moldy buildings that are seven thousand years old; nor any smoke-dried old fire-screens which are chef d'oeuvres of Rubens or Simpson, or Titian or Ferguson, or any of those parties; and they haven't any bottled fragments of saints, and not even a nail from the true cross. We are going to Rome. There is nothing to see here.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »