To coƶperate in the highest as well as the lowest sense, means to get our living together. I heard it proposed lately that two yo...ung men should travel together over the world, the one without money, earning his means as he went, before the mast and behind the plow, the other carrying a bill of exchange in his pocket. It was easy to see that they could not long be companions or coƶperate, since one would not operate at all. They would part at the first interesting crisis in their adventures.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why is it no one ever sent me yet One perfect limousine, do you suppose?... Ah no, it's always just my luck to get One perfect rose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get ...one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat hole: she knelt down and looked along... the passage into the lovliest garden you ever saw. How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head through the doorway.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages also.... Who can swear that among the naked British barbarians sent to Rome to be stared at more than 1500 years ago, the ancestor of Bacon might not have been found?--Why, among the very Thugs of India, or the bloody Dyaks of Borneo, exists the germ of all that is intellectually elevated and grand. We are all of us--Anglo-Saxons, Dyaks and Indians--sprung from one head and made in one image.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to get th...e two together so that you will be willing to put a poem through sixty drafts, to be that self-critical, to keep breaking it down, that is what is rare. Right now most poetry is just self-indulgence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »