Central heating, French rubber goods, and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art..., and of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He had the oaks for heating and for light. He had a hen, he had a pig in sight.... He had a well, he had the rain to catch. He had a ten-by-twenty garden patch. Nor did he lack for common entertainment. That I assume was what our passing train meant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every ot...her kind of discipline except that of narrow means--from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't know but a book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf--at any rate it is safer from criticism. And taki...ng a book off the brain, is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panel--you have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety--& even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a year ...less than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This fellow will but join you together as they join wainscot; then one of you will prove a shrunk panel, and... like green timber warp, warp.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, w...e are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,--not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Heaven nor hell shall impede my designs," said Manfred, advancing again to seize the princess. At that instant the portrait of hi...s grandfather ... uttered a deep sigh and heaved its breast. ... Manfred ... saw it quit its panel, and descend on the floor with a grave and melancholy air.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »