It is easier to discover another such a new world as Columbus did, than to go within one fold of this which we appear to know so w...ell; the land is lost sight of, the compass varies, and mankind mutiny; and still history accumulates like rubbish before the portals of nature. But there is only necessary a moment's sanity and sound senses, to teach us that there is a nature behind the ordinary, in which we have only some vague preemption right and western reserve as yet. We live on the outskirts of that region. Carved wood, and floating boughs, and sunset skies are all that we know of it.... Let us not, my friends, be wheedled and cheated into good behavior to earn the salt of our eternal porridge, whoever they are that attempt it. Let us wait a little, and not purchase any clearing here, trusting that richer bottoms will soon be put up. It is but thin soil where we stand; I have felt my roots in a richer ere this. I have seen a bunch of violets in a glass vase, tied loosely with a straw, which reminded me of myself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example ... Agreeab...le, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honourable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was a continuous movement now, from Zone Five to Zone Four. And from Zone Four to Zone Three, and from us, up the pass. Ther...e was a lightness, a freshness, and an enquiry and a remaking and an inspiration where there had been only stagnation. And closed frontiers. For this is how we all see it now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Honest towards ourselves and towards anyone else who is our friend; brave towards the enemy; magnanimous towards the defeated; pol...ite--always: this is how the four cardinal virtues want us to act.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Walk softly, March, forbear the bitter blow; Her feet within a trap, her blood upon the snow,... The four little foxes saw their mother go-- Walk softly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sir Toby Belch. Does not our life consist of the four elements? Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Faith, so they say, but I think it rath...er consists of eating and drinking. Sir Toby Belch. Thou'rt a scholar; therefore let us eat and drink.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »