Is there any thing beyond?--who knows? He that can't tell. Who tells there is? He who don't know. And when shall he know? Perhaps,... when he don't expect it, and generally when he don't wish it. In this last respect, however, all are not alike; it depends a good deal upon education, something upon nerves and habits--but most upon digestion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines..., relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution,--there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wonder if his appetite was good? Or, if it were, if also his digestion?... Methinks at meals some odd thoughts might intrude, And conscience ask a curious sort of question, About the right divine how far we should Sell flesh and blood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion--keep you from eating, which I liked to d...o.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force, and the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker. The more of... these drones perish, the better for the hive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in it, and mast...ers it by a penny-wisdom; and he that works most in it, is but a half-man, and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good, his mind is imbruted, and he is a selfish savage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The supposition that it was possible for any woman to be so mean-spirited as not at least to wish to tear out her rival's eyes was... too hard for the digestion of the Cry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »