Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing--to do just t...hat; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Good discipline is more than just punishing or laying down the law. It is liking children and letting them see that they are liked.... It is caring enough about them to provide good, clear rules for their protection.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here was a big constructive imagination; here was a mere doctor laying bare the origins of Greek drama as no classical scholar had... ever done, teaching the anthropologist what was really meant by his totem and taboo, probing the mysteries of sin, of sanctity, of sacrament--a man who, because he understood, purged the human spirit from fear. I have no confidence in psycho-analysis as a method of therapeutics ... but I am equally sure that for generations almost every branch of human knowledge will be enriched and illumined by the imagination of Freud.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people: we are laying up for ourselves the pleasure of lat...er cutting them down to size.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till... they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water until he had learnt to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Look at the trees now, aren't they bare? But you let a certain day come for spring and they'll come out. They won't be the same le...aves that was there last year, but when they come out they're so pretty. I look out at those trees and just think, Oh, you're so beautiful. God sure dressed you up. I say that to a tree. The work I have done, if I have to do it over, I'm willin'. But I don't want to go back. Let me be the leaf just laying at the foot of the tree giving it substance to grow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is best to lay our plans widely in youth, for then land is cheap, and it is but too easy to contract our views afterward. Youth...s so laid out, with broad avenues and parks, that they may make handsome and liberal old men! Show me a youth whose mind is like some Washington city of magnificent distances, prepared for the most remotely successful and glorious life after all, when those spaces shall be built over and the idea of the founder be realized. I trust that every New England boy will begin by laying out a Keene Street through his head, eight rods wide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly ...called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man or man independent of woman. For just as woman came from man, so man com...es through woman; but all things come from God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »