To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existe...nce.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very san...ctum sanctorum for an hour, ay, for many hours! to make a very barroom of the mind's inmost apartment, as if for so long the dust of the street had occupied us,--the very street itself, with all its travel, its bustle, and filth, had passed through our thoughts' shrine! Would it not be an intellectual and moral suicide?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and, to the citizen, most dismal, swamp.... I enter a swamp as a sacred place, a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She saw a dust bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister calxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecst...atic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »