This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever Ran on the green-sward: nothing she does or seems... But smacks of something greater than herself, Too noble for this place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I long to talk with some old lover's ghost Who died before the god of love was born.... I cannot think that he who then loved most, Sunk so low as to love one which did scorn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. Then he is i...nstructed in what is set above him. He learns that his being is without bound; that to the good, to the perfect, he is born, low as he now lies in evil and weakness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
More than thirty-five years of psychoanalytic practice and comparative observation in Europe and America have given me the impress...ion that women in general have a lower opinion of their sex than men have of theirs. This difference cannot have its origin in biological divergences but must reflect the evaluation of social environment. No analyst who has listened with the third ear to women talk sincerely and unconventionally about their own sex will deny that their opinion of females is surprisingly low. It seems rather a prejudice than an opinion, and one attributes it to inferiority feelings taken over from men's conceit or to feelings of inadequacy born out of competition with men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must the...refore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul...; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have never worked for fame or praise, and shall not feel their loss as I otherwise would. I have never for a moment lost sight o...f the humble life I was born to, its small environments, and the consequently little right I had to expect much of myself, and shall have the less to censure, or upbraid myself with for the failures I must see myself make.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »