Nothing in medieval dress distinguished the child from the adult. In the seventeenth century, however, the child, or at least the ...child of quality, whether noble or middle-class, ceased to be dressed like the grown-up. This is the essential point: henceforth he had an outfit reserved for his age group, which set him apart from the adults. These can be seen from the first glance at any of the numerous child portraits painted at the beginning of the seventeenth century.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for info...rmation about areas of life we don't know--Nigeria, South Africa, the American army, a coal-mining village, coteries in Chelsea, etc. We read to find out what is going on. One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel--the quality of philosophy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ideals possess the strange quality that if they were completely realized they would turn into nonsense. One could easily follow a ...commandment such as "Thou shalt not kill" to the point of dying of starvation; and I might establish the formula that for the proper functioning of the mesh of our ideals, as in the case of a strainer, the holes are just as important as the mesh.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sobe...r one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool, And to do that well craves a kind of wit.... He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, Not, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practice As full of labor as a wise man's art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Write to the point: say immediately what you want to say most, even if it doesn't "come first." There are three reasons for doing ...this. First, you will then have said it, even if nothing else gets said. Second, your readers will then have read it, even if they read no more. Third, having said it, you are likely to have to say something more, because you will have to explain and justify what you chose to say.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as s...omething to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death M even death on a cross.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If another member of the church sins against you, go and point out the fault when the two of you are alone. If the member listens ...to you, you have regained that one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »