He saw Mr. Lincoln but once; at the melancholy function called an Inaugural Ball. Of course he looked anxiously for a sign of char...acter. He saw a long, awkward figure; a plain, ploughed face; a mind, absent in part, and in part evidently worried by white kid gloves; features that expressed neither self-satisfaction nor any other familiar Americanism, but rather the same painful sense of becoming educated and of needing education that tormented a private secretary, above all a lack of apparent force. Any private secretary in the least fit for his business would have thought, as Adams did, that no man living needed so much education as the new President but that all the education he could get would not be enough.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force the...m to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A natio...n can be brought--by force of circumstances, not argument--to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Give us that grand word "woman" once again, And let's have done with "lady"; one's a term... Full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, Fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; And one's a word for lackeys.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? And well you should not. For my ally is the Force. And a powerful ally ...it is.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where do whites fit in the New Africa? Nowhere, I'm inclined to say ... and I do believe that it is true that even the gentlest an...d most westernised Africans would like the emotional idea of the continent entirely without the complication of the presence of the white man for a generation or two. But nowhere, as an answer for us whites, is in the same category as remarks like What's the use of living? in the face of the threat of atomic radiation. We are living; we are in Africa.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees... Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »