So close is the bond between man and woman that you can not raise one without lifting the other. The world can not move ahead with...out woman's sharing in the movement, and to help give a right impetus to that movement is woman's highest privilege.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passio...nate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island. In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, th...e consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They raise their minds by brooding over and embellishing their sufferings, from one degree of fervid exaltation and dreary greatne...ss to another, till at length they run amuck entirely, and whoever meets them would do well to run them thro' the body.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Art, it seems to me, should simplify. That, indeed, is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventi...ons of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole--so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way ...is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneat...h the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom and ...so forth while servants in tails are scurrying around your table, just like serfs, and out in the severe cold on the street await coachmen--this is the same as lying to the holy spirit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »