Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a si...n, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for "doing the best" for his children?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are the pioneers of the world; the advance-guard, sent on through the wilderness of untried things, to break a new path in the ...New World that is ours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the one instance, the dreamer ... loses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestions ... until ... he fin...ds the incitamentum, or first cause of his musings,... forgotten. In my case, the primary object was invariably frivolous, although assuming, through the medium of my distempered vision, a refracted and unreal importance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou torturest me, Tubal. It was my turquoise; I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor. I would not have given it for a wilderness ...of monkeys.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a wilderness of commonplace and much that is ugly and poor.... there seems no inspiration, no evolvement of the beautiful..., no intricate poetic conception, no freshness. It is all "technique, technique." There is little independence of vision; all "treatment" with no apprehension of the thing to treat.... They are adventurous, these artists. They draw admirably; they do not color so well, and they have few ideals.... that ideal which was once the real world of the artist seems to have fled, and that present world, "all around us lying," does not seem to have revealed itself to the artist with its truest and most tender grace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Penobscot Indians seem to be more social, even, than the whites. Ever and anon in the deepest wilderness of Maine, you come to... the log hut of a Yankee or Canada settler, but a Penobscot never takes up his residence in such a solitude. They are not even scattered about on their islands in the Penobscot, which are all within the settlements, but gathered together on two or three,--though not always on the best soil,--evidently for the sake of society. I saw one or two houses not now used by them, because, as our Indian Polis said, they were too solitary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These n...ever presented a practical difficulty to any man,--never darkened across any man's road, who did not go out of his way to seek them. These are the soul's mumps, and measles, and whooping- coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe a cure. A simple mind will not know these enemies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now I stand as one upon a rock, Environed with a wilderness of sea,... Who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, Expecting ever when some envious surge Will in his brinish bowels swallow him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »