Give me the eye to see a navy in an acorn. What is there of the divine in a load of bricks? What of the divine in a barber's shop ...or a privy? Much, all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Before me you are a slug in the sun. You are privy to a great becoming and you recognize nothing. You are an ant in the afterbirth.... It is in your nature to do one thing correctly: tremble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of n...ature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house, but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments. He bought, for example, a common edition of Horace, of which he tore off gradually a couple of pages, read them first, and then sent them down as a sacrifice to Cloacina: this was so much time fairly gained.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome.... Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long: But in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman and buffoon.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »