...I prefer not to have among my guests two people or more, of any sex, who are in the first wild tremours of love. It is better t...o invite them after their new passion has settled, has solidified into a quieter reciprocity of emotions. (It is also a waste of good food, to serve it to new lovers.)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The green trees when I saw them first through one of the gates transported and ravished me, their sweetness and unusual beauty mad...e my heart to leap, and almost mad with ecstasy, they were such strange and wonderful things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper a...rrangement of the various parts of the speech.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that co...mbination of (provisional) purity, physical strength, naturism, spontaneity and joie de vivre which was to make the adolescent the hero of our twentieth century, the century of adolescence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are four classes of idols which beset men's minds. To these for distinction's sake I have assigned names--calling the first ...class Idols of the Tribe; the second, Idols of the Cave; the third, Idols of the Market-Place; the fourth, Idols of the Theatre.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"But, first a hush of peace--a soundless calm descends; The struggle of distress, and fierce impatience ends;... Mute music soothes my breast--unuttered harmony, That I could never dream, till Earth was lost to me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn.... The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last: The force of Nature could no farther go; To make a third she joined the former two.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cling with life to the maid; But when the surprise,... First vague shadow of surmise Flits across her bosom young, Of a joy apart from thee, Free be she, fancy-free; Nor thou detain her vesture's hem, Nor the palest rose she flung From her summer diadem.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All successful men have agreed in one thing,--they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; tha...t there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The early twenties when we drank wood alcohol and every day in every way grew better and better, and there was a first abortive sh...ortening of the skirts, and girls all looked alike in sweater dresses, and people you didn't want to know said "Yes, we have no bananas," and it seemed only a question of a few years before the older people would step aside and let the world be run by those who saw things as they were--and it all seems rosy and romantic to us who were young then, because we will never feel quite so intensely about our surroundings any more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »