Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. I...f not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordina...ry it may be, before one's eyes. It becomes its symbol.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is at the same time by poetry and through poetry, by and through music, that the soul glimpses the splendors found behind the t...omb; and when an exquisite poem brings tears to one's eyes, these tears are not the sign of excessive pleasure, they are rather witness to an irritated melancholy, to a condition of nerves, to a nature exiled to imperfection and which would like to seize immediately, on this very earth, a revealed paradise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business shou...ld always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here they are. The soft eyes open. If they have lived in a wood... It is a wood. If they have lived on plains It is grass rolling Under their feet forever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more loudly than plea...sure and happiness; and the prints of their heavy footsteps are less easily effaced.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Ari...stotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Meanwhile Snow White held court, rolling her china-blue doll eyes open and shut... and sometimes referring to her mirror as women do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low!... The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »