O! I must tell you that I have fallen in love with a gentleman whom I have lately come acquainted with: he is about 60 or 70--has ...the misfortune to be humpbacked, crooked legged, and rather deformed in his face.--But, in sober sadness, I am delighted with the Dean of Coleraine, whose picture this is, and which I have very lately read. The piety, the zeal, the humanity, goodness and humility of this charming old man have won my heart. Ah! who will not envy him the invaluable treasure!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is ... alarming and also nauseating to see Mr. Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-k...nown in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Viceregal Palace, while he is still organising and conducting a defiant campaign of civil disobedience, to parley on equal terms with the representative of the King Emperor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are certain stereotypes that are offensive. Some of them don't worry me, though. For instance, I have always thought that Ma...mmy character in Gone with the Wind was mighty funny. And I just loved "Amos 'n' Andy" on the radio. So you see, I have enough confidence in myself that those things did not bother me. I could laugh.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.... I have been one acquainted with the night.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain--and back in rain.... I have outwalked the furthest city light.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fist...s? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that ...we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we have not interfered and shall not interfere. But with the Governments who have declared their independence and maintain it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and on just principles, acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling in any other manner their destiny, by any European power in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Experienced sportsmen tell us that the best moment to shoot partridges is when they rise out of the corn. It is more difficult to ...hit them in free flight. In like manner the point of departure seems to be the best moment to seize an analytic impression or idea. Once we miss it, it is not much use to pursue it with the devices of conscious reflection. It has already moved too far from the ground of the unconscious, like the partridges a few minutes after their upward flight. And any sportsman will be able to teach us that by this delay we lose much more than the single partridge. In the same way, if we allow the point of departure to slip by unused, whole chains of ideas and thoughts may be lost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The men with the muck-rakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society; but only if they know when to stop raking the mu...ck.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »