The newspapers, especially those in the East, are amazingly superficial and ... a large number of news gatherers are either cynics... at heart or are following the orders and the policies of the owners of their papers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the sup...erfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But there is nothing which delights and terrifies our English Theatre so much as a Ghost, especially when he appears in a bloody S...hirt. A Spectre has very often saved a Play, though he has done nothing but stalked across the Stage, or rose through a Cleft of it, and sunk again without speaking one Word.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To recover a buried treasure without having it disappear miraculously in the process, one must be entitled to it, and also be will...ing--really willing deep in his heart--to share it with the poor and helpless. Buried money, especially silver, gives off a bright glow which comes right up through the earth and can be seen as a dim light on nights when the weather is misty or there is a gentle rain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no ch...oice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, eve...ry instinct and every teaching. The acceptance of this idea is possible only to those of especially progressive tendencies and a strong sense of justice, and it is yet too soon to expect these from the majority.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... we have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and pr...oviding for their bundance. Whatever we do, we are supposed to do for the sake of "making a living;" such is the verdict of society, and the number of people, especially in the professions who might challenge it, has decreased rapidly. The only exception society is willing to grant is to the artist, who, strictly speaking, is the only "worker" left in a laboring society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In all cases, excepting those of the bear and leopard, the female is less spirited than the male; in regard to the two exceptional... cases, the superiority in courage rests with the female. With all other animals the female is softer in disposition than the male, is more mischievous, less simple, more impulsive, and more attentive to the nurture of the young; the male, on the other hand, is more spirited than the female, more savage, more simple and less cunning. The traces of these differentiated characteristics are more or less visible everywhere, but they are especially visible where character is the more developed, and most of all in man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »