I could heartily wish that you may often be seen to smile, but never heard to laugh while you live. Frequent and loud laughter is ...the characteristic of folly and ill manners; it is the manner in which the mob express their silly joy at silly things; and they call it being merry. In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter. True wit, or sense, never yet made any body laugh; they are above it. They please the mind, and give a cheerfulness to the countenance. But it is low buffoonery, or silly accidents, that always excite laughter; and that is what people of sense and breeding should show themselves above.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, on...ly seeks to adorn its prison. Men have various employments and pursuits which engage their attention, and give a character to the opening mind; but women, confined to one, and having their thoughts constantly directed to the most insignificant part of themselves, seldom extend their views beyond the triumph of the hour.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"If she belongs to any besides the present, it is to the next world which artists want to see, when paganism will come again and w...e can give a divinity to every waterfall."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mind can make Substance, and people planets of its own... With beings brighter than have been, and give A breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage.... ...They asked only for freedom of opportunity and equal chance. In these conceptions lies the real basis of American democracy. They and their fathers give a genius to American institutions that distinguished our people from any other in the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star,... Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we... are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in others and we fight them fiercely in ourselves; but we grow old and we see that these our sins are of all sins the really harmless ones to own, nay that they give a charm to any character, and so our struggle with them dies away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the... universe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »