I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in each of... these works an act of invention, an intellectual step, or short series of steps taken; that act or step is the spiritual act; all the rest is mere repetition of the same a thousand times.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives there...fore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miracul...ous flushes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The diver vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I cannot be a materialist--but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicio...us luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery--such suffering, such dreadful suffering--and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The glorious dream of full father involvement in infant care will not become a widespread reality overnight. But it can happen, an...d it eventually will happen,... A lot of progress may take place in a short period of time if we just lighten up, step back, and give the guys a decent chance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institution...s of the dead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He will not idly dance at his work who has wood to cut and cord before nightfall in the short days of winter; but every stroke wil...l be husbanded, and ring soberly through the wood; and so will the strokes of that scholar's pen, which at evening record the story of the day, ring soberly, yet cheerily, on the ear of the reader, long after the echoes of his axe have died away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thus is Paradise to be Regained, and that old and stern decree at length reversed. Man shall no more earn his living by the sweat ...of his brow. All labor shall be reduced to "a short turn of some crank," and "taking the finished articles away." But there is a crank,--oh, how hard to be turned! Could there not be a crank upon a crank,--an infinitely small crank? Mwe would fain inquire. No,--alas! not.... In fact, no work can be shirked. It may be postponed indefinitely, but not infinitely. Nor can any really important work be made easier by coöperation or machinery. Not one particle of labor now threatening any man can be routed without being performed. It cannot be hunted out of the vicinity like jackals and hyenas. It will not run. You may begin by sawing the little sticks, or you may saw the great sticks first, but sooner or later you must saw them both.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »