Do you believe that the dead can influence the living?... Could you conceive of a superhuman mentality influencing someone from th...e other side of death?... There is such a one.... Someone, something that reaches out from beyond the grave and fills me with horrible impulses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the old supports going, gone, this man reaches out a hand to steady himself on a ledge of rough brick that is warm in the sun:... his hand feeds him messages of solidity, but his mind messages of destruction, for this breathing substance, made of earth, will be a dance of atoms, he knows it, his intelligence tells him so: there will soon be war, he is in the middle of war, where he stands will be a waste, mounds of rubble, and this solid earthy substance will be a film of dust on ruins.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All that is necessary to do with this drink is to place it in an open saucer on the window sill and inhale deeply from across the ...room. In about eight seconds the top of the inhaler's head rises slowly and in a dignified manner until it reaches the ceiling where it floats, bumping gently up and down. The teeth then drop out and arrange themselves on the floor to spell "Portage High School, 1930" the eyes roll upward and backward, and a strange odor of burning rubber fills the room.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Colonel, never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reach...es you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It may comfort you to know that if your child reaches the age of eleven or twelve and you have a good bond or relationship, no mat...ter how dramatic adolescence becomes, you children will probably turn out all right and want some form of connection to you in adulthood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is something in the fullness of life--that brimming excess of emotion, thought, effort, enjoyment, and work which only reach...es an American woman. It is that exaltation which comes from intellectual contact, that supreme excitement of society, that generous outgiving of sympathy, the necessary wear and tear of daily life ... which wear out the health of an American woman so soon. A woman's life is gone before she knows that she has been spending her principal. That splendid investment, which should have lasted her life, has been squandered, and on whom? On friends she loves and would die for? No, on the sordid call and the sense of duty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sometimes, having had a surfeit of human society and gossip, and worn out all my village friends, I rambled still farther westward... than I habitually dwell, into yet more unfrequented parts of the town, "to fresh woods and pastures new," or, while the sun was setting, made my supper of huckleberries and blueberries on Fair Haven Hill, and laid up a store for several days. The fruits do not yield their true flavor to the purchaser of them, nor to him who raises them for the market. There is but one way to obtain it, yet few take that way.... It is a vulgar error to suppose that you have tasted huckleberries who never plucked them. A huckleberry never reaches Boston; they have not been known there since they grew on her three hills. The ambrosial and essential part of the fruit is lost with the bloom which is rubbed off in the market cart, and they become mere provender. As long as Eternal Justice reigns, not one innocent huckleberry can be transported thither from the country's hills.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One inconvenience I sometimes experienced in so small a house, the difficulty of getting to a sufficient distance from my guest wh...en we began to utter the big thoughts in big words. You want room for your thoughts to get into sailing trim and run a course or two before they make their port. The bullet of your thought must have overcome its lateral and ricochet motion and fallen into its last and steady course before it reaches the ear of the hearer, else it may plow out again through the side of his head.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all li...fe long.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »