Taft represented a victory for everything that was least progressive in Roosevelt. The great love which bound the two men, as it h...as been described touchingly and at length by dozens of their friends and aides, contained scarcely a glimmer of common interest relating to reform. It had to do with social standing, political advancement, favors asked and favors given.... The essence of Roosevelt's conservatism was his dependence on party politics; of Taft's his adherence to the law. Roosevelt, that is to say, was a politician; his friend was a lawyer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing ... is so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, it... was kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Seen with the terrestially sullied eye, we are in the situation of travelers in a train that has met with an accident in a tunnel,... and this at a place where the light of the beginning can no longer be seen, and the light of the end is so very small a glimmer that the gaze must continually search for it and is always losing it again, and, furthermore, both the beginning and the end are not even certainties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Human judgment of human actions is true and void, that is to say, first true and then void.... The judgment of the word is true, t...he judgment in itself is void.... Only he who is a party can really judge, but as a party he cannot judge. Hence it follows that there is no possibility of judgment in the world, only a glimmer of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let the space under the first storey be dark, let the water lap the stone posts, and vivid green slime glimmer... upon them; let a boat be kept there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This, our respectable daily life, on which the man of common sense, the Englishman of the world, stands so squarely, and on which ...our institutions are founded, is in fact the veriest illusion, and will vanish like the baseless fabric of a vision; but that faint glimmer of reality which sometimes illuminates the darkness of daylight for all men, reveals something more solid and enduring than adamant, which is in fact the cornerstone of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter..., and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and marrow, and so you will happily conclude your mortal career. Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket... sings; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »