Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond th...e grave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering th...at nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have misplaced the Van Allen belt the sewers and the drainage,... the urban renewal and the suburban centers. I have forgotten the names of the literary critics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You must be respectful and assenting, but without being servile and abject. You must be frank, but without indiscretion, and close..., without being costive. You must keep up dignity of character, without the least pride of birth, or rank. You must be gay, within all the bounds of decency and respect; and grave, without the affectation of wisdom, which does not become the age of twenty. You must be essentially secret, without being dark and mysterious. You must be firm, and even bold, but with great seeming modesty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are born to do benefits; and what better or properer can we call our own than the riches of our friends? O, what a precious com...fort 'tis to have so many like brothers commanding one another's fortunes!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »