Now you're not gonna have a country that can make these kinds of rules work, if you haven't got men that have learned to tell huma...n rights from a punch in the nose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are two kinds of fathers in traditional households: the fathers of sons and the fathers of daughters. These two kinds of fat...hers sometimes co-exist in one and the same man. For instance, Daughter's Father kisses his little girl goodnight, strokes her hair, hugs her warmly, then goes into the next room where he becomes Son's Father, who says in a hearty voice, perhaps with a light punch on the boy's shoulder: "Goodnight, Son, see ya in the morning."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants. Not le...ss does the writer attend his affair. Whatever he beholds or experiences, comes to him as a model, and sits for its picture. He counts it all nonsense that they say, that some things are undescribable. He believes that all that can be thought can be written, first or last; and he would report the Holy Ghost, or attempt it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The planter, who is Man sent out into the field to gather food, is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry.... He sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond, and sinks into the farmer, instead of Man on the farm.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have now become pretty well acquainted with the sugar-growing part of Texas. The life of a planter who has a fair start in the ...world is one of the most independent imaginable. We here find the pleasures of fashionable life without its tyranny. I doubt, however, whether a person of Northern education could so far forget his home-bred notions and feelings as ever to be thoroughly Southern on the subject of slavery. We have seen none of "the horrors" so often described, but on the other hand I have seen nothing to change my Northern opinions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer ... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bo...ne and sinew of the country--men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sentio ergo sum: he feels his way And words themselves stand up for him like Braille... And punch and perforate his parchment ear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At the punch-bowl's brink, Let the thirsty think,... What they say in Japan: First the man takes a drink, Then the drink takes a drink, Then the drink takes the man!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »