Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous aff...ects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king--and of a King of England too, and thin...k foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm; to which, rather than any dishonour should grow by me, I myself will take up arms--I myself will be your general, judge, and rewarder of every one of your virtues in the field.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But these young scholars, who invade our hills, Bold as the engineer who fells the wood,... And travelling often in the cut he makes, Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not And all their botany is Latin names. The old men studied magic in the flowers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympu...s. No degree of affection need invade this religion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the reviewing of books be ... "an ungentle craft," the making of them is, for the most part, a dishonest one--and that departme...nt of literature which ought to be entrusted to those only who are distinguished for their moral qualities is, not infrequently, in the hands of authors totally devoid of good taste, good feeling, and generous sentiment. The writers of Lives have, in our time, assumed a licence not enjoyed by their more scrupulous predecessors--for they interweave the adventures of the living with the memoirs of the dead; and, pretending to portray the peculiarities which sometimes mark the man of genius, they invade the privacy and disturb the peace of his surviving associates.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am more and more convinced that the ant colony is not so much composed of separate individuals as that the colony is a sort of i...ndividual, and each ant like a loose cell in it. Our own blood stream, for instance, contains hosts of white corpuscles which differ little from free-swimming amoebae. When bacteria invade the blood stream, the white corpuscles, like the ants defending the nest, are drawn mechanically to the infected spot, and will die defending the human cell colony. I admit that the comparison is imperfect, but the attempt to liken the individual human warrior to the individual ant in battle is even more inaccurate and misleading. The colony of ants with its component numbers stands half way, as a mechanical, intuitive, and psychical phenomenon, between our bodies as a collection of cells with separate functions and our armies made up of obedient privates. Until one learns both to deny real individual initiative to the single ant, and at the same time to divorce one's mind from the persuasion that the colony has a headquarters which directs activity ... one can make nothing but pretty fallacies out of the polity of the ant heap.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you expect complete honesty, you'll be disappointed. And don't expect gratitude for your parenting efforts. Do expect that you'...ll feel like you're on a yo-yo--intimate with your child one day, distant the next. As long as she's safe, don't invade her world. Remember: most teens end up being closer to their parents after adolescence than they were before.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »