An illustrious individual remarks that Mrs. [Elizabeth Cady] Stanton is the salt, Anna Dickinson the pepper, and Miss [Susan B.] A...nthony the vinegar of the Female Suffrage movement. The very elements get the "white male" into a nice pickle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful. The Greeks engendered the chimera, a ...monster with heads of the lion, the dragon and the goat; the theologians of the second century, the Trinity, in which the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are inextricably tied; the Chinese zoologists, the ti-yiang, a vermilion supernatural bird, endowed with six feet and four wings, but without a face or eyes; the geometers of the nineteenth century, the hypercube, a figure with four dimensions, which encloses an infinite number of cubes and has as its faces eight cubes and twenty-four squares. Hollywood has just enriched this vain museum of horrors: by means of an artistic malignity called dubbing, it proposes monsters that combine the illustrious features of Greta Garbo with the voice of Aldonza Lorenzo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy,--more formidable to its enemy, more sweet and serene in its infl...uence to its friend, than any kingdom in history. For a man, rightly viewed, comprehendeth the particular natures of all men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let me approach at least, and touch thy hand. [Samson:] Not for thy life, lest fierce remembrance wake... My sudden rage to tear thee joint by joint. At distance I forgive thee, go with that; Bewail thy falsehood, and the pious works It hath brought forth to make thee memorable Among illustrious women, faithful wives: Cherish thy hast'n'd widowhood with the gold Of Matrimonial treason: so farewel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happies...t, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Consider the China pride and stagnant self-complacency of mankind. This generation inclines a little to congratulate itself on bei...ng the last of an illustrious line; and in Boston and London and Paris and Rome, thinking of its long descent, it speaks of its progress in art and science and literature with satisfaction.... It is the good Adam contemplating his own virtue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his pa...per on "The Survival of the Fittest." These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Illustrious examples engross, prejudice, and intimidate. They engross our attention, and so prevent a due inspection of ourselves;... they prejudice our judgment in favour of their abilities, and so lessen the sense of our own; and they intimidate us with the splendour of their renown, and thus under diffidence bury our strength.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »