Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with great...er calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would ... be confined to one sing...le deed from which we could never recover; we would remain the victims of its consequences forever, not unlike the sorcerer's apprentice who lacked the magic formula to break the spell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hardly had the glow been kindled by some good deed on your part or by some little triumph over your rivals or by a word of praise ...from your parents or mentors when it would begin to cool and fade leaving you in a very short time as chill and dim as before.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there--that, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable pre...sence of the thing not named, of the overtone divined by the ear but not heard by it, the verbal mood, the emotional aura of the fact or the thing or the deed, that gives high quality to the novel or the drama, as well as to poetry itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to st...udy and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »