To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportion...s than a vine filled with grapes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea?" O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the he...avenly host crying "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"What," it will be questioned, "When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea?" O no, no, I see a...n innumerable company of the heavenly host crying "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does not see alike. To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than ...the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ea...rs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the spring; if they ...don't fall out they let them live another year.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for granted, as if ma...n was intended to live on terms of friendly intercourse with the rest of creation instead of huddling in isolation on the fourteenth floor of an apartment house in a city where animals occurred behind bars in the zoo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an... individual.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a sh...illing, it is ... the labour of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »