Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my fooli...sh hopes in despair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thus has Homer proved his opinion of our poor sex--that the love of beauty is our most prevailing passion. It really grieves me to... think that there certainly must be reason for the insignificant opinion the greatest men have of women--at least I fear there must.--But I don't in fact believe it--thank God!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pray be always in motion. Early in the morning go and see things; and the rest of the day go and see people. If you stay but a wee...k at a place, and that an insignificant one, see, however, all that is to be seen there; know as many people, and get into as many houses as ever you can.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The greatest part of each day, each year, each lifetime is made up of small, seemingly insignificant moments. Those moments may be... cooking dinner...relaxing on the porch with your own thoughts after the kids are in bed, playing catch with a child before dinner, speaking out against a distasteful joke, driving to the recycling center with a week's newspapers. But they are not insignificant, especially when these moments are models for kids.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from... each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly dreams. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I looked at my daughters, and my boyhood picture, and appreciated the gift of parenthood, at that moment, more than any other gift... I have ever been given. For what person, except one's own children, would want so deeply and sincerely to have shared your childhood? Who else would think your insignificant and petty life so precious in the living, so rich in its expressiveness, that it would be worth partaking of what you were, to understand what you are?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »