Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timb...ers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These are the arks, the trophies, I erect, That fortify thy name against old age;... And these thy sacred virtues must protect Against the dark and Time's consuming rage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all court...esy in the hall. He is good company for pirates, and good with academicians; so that it is useless to fortify yourself against him; he has the private entrance to all minds, and I could as easily exclude myself, as him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At the stumbling of a horse, the fall of a tile, the slightest pin prick, let us promptly chew on this: Well, what if it were deat...h itself? And thereupon let us stiffen and fortify ourselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequat...e, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities? For we have too much likeness as it is, and if an explorer should come back and bring word of other sexes looking through the branches of other trees at other skies, nothing would be of greater service to humanity; and we should have the immense pleasure into the bargain of watching Professor X rush for his measuring-rods to prove himself "superior."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »