I almost think we're all of us Ghosts, Pastor Manders. It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that "walks..." in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. And then we are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, with...out knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
screenwriter Tony Pastor, the pioneer of vaudeville, played the theater in 1876.... He had been preceded by P.T. Barnum, and ...an occasional performer such as Professor Simmons, "Great, Weird, Wondrous, and Invincibly Incomprehensible ... Basiliconthamaturgist."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If thee thy brittle beauty so deceives, Know then the thing that swells thee is thy bane;... For the same beauty doth, in bloody leaves. The sentence of thy early death contain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »