It is surprising with what impunity and comfort one who has always lain in a warm bed in a close apartment, and studiously avoided... drafts of air, can lie down on the ground without a shelter, roll himself in a blanket, and sleep before a fire, in a frosty autumn night, just after a long rain-storm, and even come soon to enjoy and value the fresh air.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My dear dear Mother, If you don't let me come home I die--I am all over ink,... and my fine clothes have been spoilt--I have been tost in a blanket, and seen a ghost. I remain, my dear dear Mother, Your dutiful and most unhappy son, Freddy. P.S. Remember me to my Father.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I never drink wine ... I keep my hands soft and supple ... I sleep in a soft bed and never over-tire my body. It is because whe...n my hour strikes I must be a perfect instrument. My eyes must be steady, my brain clear, my nerves calm, my aim true. I must be prepared to do my work, successfully if God wills. But if I perish, I perish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perp...lexities; but, whatever occurs, may justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by ...the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[The Settlement House] must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy whic...h will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of ...love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Consider the number of young people all over the world who are getting married, day in and day out, for no other reason than that ...someone of the opposite sex looks well in a green jersey or sings baritone, and then tell me that divorce has reached menacing proportions. The surface of divorce has not even been scratched yet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to l...ive in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »