Surely the one thing needful for a Christian and an Englishman to study is Christian and moral and political philosophy, and then ...we should see our way a little more clearly without falling into Judaism, or Toryism, or Jacobinism, or any other ism whatever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... any men who would give up the law-making power to women in order to remedy existing evils, would surely be those most ready to... enact the needful laws themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, th...e proportions of the body, the sound of the voice, the ease of the gestures. It is not at all necessary to be handsome or to be pretty; all that is needful is charm.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where woman has taken her place in business she has found her method ready-shaped for her, and following that, she does her work, ...if with a certain amount of monotony, yet without undue fatigue. Her hours are fixed, and as a rule she gets needful change of scene as she goes to her business and returns to her home or the place where she lives. But the "home- maker" has not, nor can she have, any such change, and her hours are always from the rising of the sun beyond the going down of the same.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Great Wits are sure to Madness near alli'd And thin Partitions do their Bounds divide;... Else, why should he, with Wealth and Honour blest, Refuse his Age the needful hours of Rest?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the ...pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... possibly there is no needful occupation which is wholly unbeautiful. The beauty of work depends upon the way we meet it--wheth...er we arm ourselves each morning to attack it as an enemy that must be vanquished before night comes, or whether we open our eyes with the sunrise to welcome it as an approaching friend who will keep us delightful company all day, and who will make us feel, at evening, that the day was well worth its fatigues.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I regard a love for poetry as one of the most needful and helpful elements in the life- outfit of a human being. It was the greate...st of blessings to me, in the long days of toil to which I was shut in much earlier than most young girls are, that the poetry I held in my memory breathed its enchanted atmosphere through me and around me, and touched even dull drudgery with its sunshine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Prince but studies his companions Like a strange tongue, wherein, to gain the language,... 'Tis needful that the most immodest word Be looked upon and learnt, which once attained, Your highness knows, comes to no further use But to be known and hated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »