The temples, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they issued from the ...gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices, "No, not yet," and the sky said, "No, not there."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The welcome house of him my dearest guest. Where ever, ever stay, and go not thence,... Till natures sad decree shall call thee hence; Flesh of thy flesh, bone of thy bone, I here, thou there, yet both but one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest; ...it oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy; a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as sc...reens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid ...of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At the ramparts on the cliff near the old Parliament House I counted twenty-four thirty-two-pounders in a row, pointed over the ha...rbor, with their balls piled pyramid-wise between them,--there are said to be in all about one hundred and eighty guns mounted at Quebec,--all which were faithfully kept dusted by officials, in accordance with the motto, "In time of peace prepare for war"; but I saw no preparations for peace: she was plainly an uninvited guest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One inconvenience I sometimes experienced in so small a house, the difficulty of getting to a sufficient distance from my guest wh...en we began to utter the big thoughts in big words. You want room for your thoughts to get into sailing trim and run a course or two before they make their port. The bullet of your thought must have overcome its lateral and ricochet motion and fallen into its last and steady course before it reaches the ear of the hearer, else it may plow out again through the side of his head.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[The Settlement House] must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy whic...h will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels;... the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid--these are whores in everything but name. The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »