If it is the result of a pure love, there can be nothing sensual in marriage. Chastity is something positive, not negative. It is ...the virtue of the married especially. All lusts or base pleasures must give place to loftier delights. They who meet as superior beings cannot perform the deeds of inferior ones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds--a sacrifice to the vanity of ageing adolescents.... I...n 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath, I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,... And speed glum heroes up the line to death,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep searched with saucy looks;... Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above,... Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain, Ascend to heaven in honour of my love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religion--or a new form of Christianity--based on faith in financial mi...racles and in a Heaven here on earth with a water slide and luxury hotels. It was a religion of celebrity and showmanship and fun, which made a mockery of all puritanical standards and all canons of good taste. Its standard was excess, and its doctrines were tolerance and freedom from accountability.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself g...et good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »