The sensation of seeing extremely fine women, with superb forms, perfectly unconscious of undress, and yet evidently aware of thei...r beauty and dignity, is worth a week's seasickness to experience.... To me the effect [of a Siva dance] was that of a dozen Rembrandts intensified into the most glowing beauty of life and motion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mother whose self-image is dependent on her children places on those children the responsibility for her own identity, and her... involvement in the details of their lives can put great pressure on the children. A child suffers when everything he or she does is extremely important to a parent; this kind of over-involvement can turn even a small problem into a crisis.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No animal will more repay A treatment kind and fair;... At least so lonely people say Who keep a frog (and, by the way, They are extremely rare).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he'...s in business.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Heavens. Once an object of superstition, awe and fear. Now a vast region for growing knowledge. The distance of Venus, the atm...osphere of Mars, the size of Jupiter, and the speed of Mercury. All this and more we know. But their greatest mystery the heavens have kept a secret. What sort of life, if any, inhabits these other planets? Human life, like ours? Or life extremely lower in the scale. Or dangerously higher.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My darling girl, Unfortunately this earth is not ... a fairy- land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extre...mely harsh. All the same, or precisely for this reason, it is happiness and comfort for us men to have a precious sweetheart--and I have the most precious, the dearest and best of all!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She [Evelina] is a little angel!... Her face and person answer my most refined ideas of complete beauty.... She has the same gentl...eness in her manners, the same natural graces in her motions, that I formerly so much admired in her mother. Her character seems truly ingenuous and simple; and at the same time that nature has blessed her with an excellent understanding and great quickness of parts, she has a certain air of inexperience and innocency that is extremely interesting.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. [Christopher] Smart the poet was here yesterday.... This ingenious writer is one of the most unfortunate of men--he has been t...wice confined in a mad house.... How great a pity so clever, so ingenious a man should be reduced to such shocking circumstances. He is extremely grave, and has still great wildness in his manner, looks and voice--'tis impossible to see him and to think of his works, without feeling the utmost pity and concern for him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties,... Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A woman asking "Am I good? Am I satisfied?" is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to othe...r women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »