One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to... ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Freud was once asked what he thought a normal person should be able to do well. The questioner probably expected a complicated ans...wers. But Freud, in the curt way of his old days, is reported to have said: "Lieben und arbeiten" (to love and to work). It pays to ponder on this simple formula; it gets deeper as you think about it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What if we fail to stop the erosion of cities by automobiles?... In that case America will hardly need to ponder a mystery that ha...s troubled men for millennia: What is the purpose of life? For us, the answer will be clear, established and for all practical purposes indisputable: The purpose of life is to produce and consume automobiles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human ...life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have experienced such simple delight in the trivial matters of fishing and sporting, formerly, as might have inspired the muse o...f Homer or Shakespeare; and now, when I turn the pages and ponder the plates of the Angler's Souvenir, I am fain to exclaim,-- "Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What climbs the stair? Nothing that common women ponder on... If you are worth my hope! Neither Content Nor satisfied Conscience, but that great family Some ancient famous authors misrepresent, The Proud Furies each with her torch on high.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »