...give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap; for ...the measure you give will be the measure you get back.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We went to see the ocean, and that is probably the best place of all our coast to go to. If you go by water, you may experience wh...at it is to leave and to approach these shores; you may see the stormy petrel by the way, thalassodroma, running over the sea, and if the weather is but a little thick, may lose sight of the land in mid-passage. I do not know where there is another beach in the Atlantic States, attached to the mainland, so long, and at the same time so straight, and completely uninterrupted by creeks or coves or fresh-water rivers and marshes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As I walked in the woods to see the birds and squirrels, so I walked in the village to see the men and boys; instead of the wind a...mong the pines I heard the carts rattle. In one direction from my house there was a colony of muskrats in the river meadows; under the grove of elms and buttonwoods in the other horizon was a village of busy men, as curious to me as if they had been prarie-dogs, each sitting at the mouth of its burrow, or running over to a neighbor's to gossip. I went there frequently to observe their habits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... with dozens of as yet Unrealized projects, and a strict sense... Of time running out, of evening presenting The tactfully folded-over bill?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What they could do with round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know wh...at the trouble with peace is? No organization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the y...ears it gets to be long enough for you pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. It's another thing, though, to hold up that cloth for inspection.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To the young mind, every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things, and see in them one na...ture; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running underground, whereby contrary and remote things cohere, and flower out from one stem.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »