At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distractio...n.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not at all monstrous in me to say ... that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest artis...t's work ever produced.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not merely the likeness which is precious ... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing ... the fa...ct of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think--and it is not at all monstrous in me to say ... that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Uncle Matthew's four years in France and Italy between 1914 and 1918 had given him no great opinion of foreigners. "Frogs," he wou...ld say, "are slightly better than Huns or Wops, but abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »