...it has been a joy to live, at last, under an Administration which--stumbling forward and backward, colliding with all the habit...s of government, all the habits of business--has still endeavored to make the happiness of man, woman and child its chief consideration.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It...'s pretty, but is it Art?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what ...they have been led to expect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere sl...ave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed gi...ve me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Neither years nor books have yet availed to extirpate a prejudice then rooted in me, that a scholar is the favorite of Heaven and ...earth, the excellency of his country, the happiest of men. His duties lead him directly into the holy ground where other men's aspirations only point. His successes are occasions of the purest joy to all men. Eyes is he to the blind; feet is he to the lame. His failures, if he is worthy, are inlets to higher advantages.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »