The morning cup of coffee has an exhiliration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot ...be expected to reproduce.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat... In a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without... sticking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind, or miss it;Mbut talking is like playing at a ma...rk with the pipe of an engine; if it is within reach, and you have time enough, you can't help hitting it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now you know very well that there are no less than fifty-eight different pieces in a violin. These pieces are strangers to each ot...her, and it takes a century, more or less, to make them thoroughly acquainted. At last they learn to vibrate in harmony, and the instrument becomes an organic whole, as if it were a great seed-capsule which had grown from a garden-bed in Cremona, or elsewhere. Besides, the wood is juicy and full of sap for fifty years or so, but at the end of fifty or hundred years gets tolerably dry and comparatively resonant. Don't you see that all this is just as true of a poem? Counting each word as a piece, there are more pieces in an average copy of verses than in a violin. The poet has forced all these words together, and fastened them, and they don't understand it at first. But let the poem be repeated aloud and murmured over in the mind's muffled whisper often enough, and at length the parts become knit together in such absolute solidarity that you could not change a syllable without the whole world's crying out against you for meddling with the harmonious fabric. Observe, too, how the drying process takes place in the stuff of a poem just as in that of a violin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children but t...heir little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but t...heir little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »