The story is told of a man who, seeing one of the thoroughbred stables for the first time, suddenly removed his hat and said in aw...ed tones, "My Lord! The cathedral of the horse."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Parents who want a fresh point of view on their furniture are advised to drop down on all fours and accompany the nine or ten mont...h old on his rounds. It is probably many years since you last studied the underside of a dining room chair. The ten month old will study this marvel with as much concentration and reverence as a tourist in the Cathedral of Chartres.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a normal person the motor and sensory nervous systems act as the windows of the individual personality.... [ellipsis in origina...l] The broken, many-stained and pictorial windows through which the light is struggling under disadvantages to harmonize itself with the physical world at large are found in three classes of persons--the mentally deficient, the morally deficient, and the insane. In these, the light is there, but the images, as in a broken cathedral window, are more or less shattered and confused.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The command of comparisons that develops with age is, while no doubt good for the mind, somewhat numbing for the emotions. It is a... wonderful thing to be able to look at an Italian cathedral and recognize the classical influences upon its Gothic, but it is still more wonderful to look at it altogether unaware, altogether open to its fascination. Literature is more thrilling before critical relativity arises; the worst of wine, in the early years of one's life, is better than the best toward the end; and as to your first love, earnestly though you may deny it to later partners and even to yourself, nothing will ever match its ecstasy, laced as it is likely to have been with reckless innocence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now, honestly: if a large group of ... demonstrators blocked the entrances to St. Patrick's Cathedral every Sunday for years, maki...ng it impossible for worshipers to get inside the church without someone escorting them through screaming crowds, wouldn't some judge rule that those protesters could keep protesting, but behind police lines and out of the doorways?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man Cia finally noticed me, took a long look at me and began to kiss me: a first kiss on the forehead for herself, she said, for h...er own pleasure; a second one on the left cheek because I was not one of those girls whose strings you could pull to make them dance; a third so the right cheek would not get jealous and one last kiss because she could see that I was a strong little Negress. She added, covering me with her beautiful gaze: "you will stand on earth like a cathedral".LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it mad...e a cathedral.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lord Bateman prepared for another marriage, So both their hearts so full of glee.... 'I will range no more to foreign countries Now since Sophia have a-crossed the sea.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »