The more one knows of our life the more one must denounce it, lest it be suspected that one has a personal motive in defending it.... When other women speak of us you must assume an attitude of scorn, not only to protect yourself from suspicion, but that you may also feel it for yourself and have no temptation to return. When you think of us do not remember any small kindness that we may have shown you or that we show to one another. Remember only the things that have shocked you and outraged your traditions and your sense of decency. Remember your sufferings at the hands of beasts who are miscalled men. If you keep these things in view you will never again fall into temptation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My criticisms are always simple; they are limited to one word:MOmit! Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and eve...ry page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this rule; the flesh is weak, and shrinks from the scissors; I groan in retrospect over the weak words and useless pages I have written; but the law is sound, and every book written without a superfluous page or word is a masterpiece. All the same, no one cares to apply so stern a law to another person. One has right to be severe only with oneself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He has been described as "an innkeeper who hated his guests, a philosopher, and poet who left no written record of his thought, a ...despiser of women who gave all he had to one, an aristocrat, a proletarian, a pagan, an arcadian, an atheist, a lover of beauty, and, inadvertently, the stepfather of domestic science in America."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing is to be compared to the misery of being bound without Love, bound to one, & preferring another. That is a... Punishment which you do not deserve.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. T...hat is why we must hang on to one another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The land of shadows wilt thou trace And look nor know each other's face... The present mixed with reasons gone And past and present all as one Say maiden can thy life be led To join the living with the dead Then trace thy footsteps on with me We're wed to one eternityLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man's destination is not his destiny, Every country is home to one man... And exile to another. Where a man dies bravely At one with his destiny, that soil is his.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of so...irees.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The policy of this country is a canal under American control. The United States cannot consent to the surrender of this control to... any European power.... The capital invested by corporations or citizens of other countries in such an enterprise must in a great degree look for protection to one or more of the great powers of the world. No European power can intervene for such protection without adopting measures on this continent which the United States would deem wholly inadmissible. If the protection of the United States is relied upon, The United States must exercise such control as will enable this country to protect its national interests.... An interoceanic canal across the American Isthmus ... would be the great ocean thoroughfare between our Atlantic and our Pacific shores, and virtually a part of the coastline of the United States. Our merely commercial interest in it is greater than that of all other countries, while its relations to our power and prosperity as a nation, to our means of defense, our unity, peace, and safety, are matters of paramount concern to the people of the United States.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »