... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire i...nto extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, n...either shall they learn war any more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
During those years in Stamps, I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare. He was my first white love.... it was Shakespeare w...ho said, "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes." It was a state of mind with which I found myself most familiar. I pacified myself about his whiteness by saying that after all he had been dead so long it couldn't matter to anyone any more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I were in the unenviable position of having to study my work my points of departure would be the "Naught is more real ..." and ...the "Ubi nihil vales ..." both already in Murphy and neither very rational.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know those little phrases that seem so innocuous and, once you let them in, pollute the whole of speech. Nothing is more real th...an nothing. They rise up out of the pit and know no rest until they drag you down into its dark.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
More luck to honest poverty, It claims respect, and a' that;... But honest wealth's a better thing, We dare be rich for a' that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore,... There is society where none intrudes By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but nature more,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Attorneys-general, awful to the sight, As hinting more (unless our judgments warp us)... Of the "Star Chamber"than of "Habeas Corpus."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »