The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal--every other aff...liction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open--this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great British Library--an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most o...f which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or "pure English, undefiled" wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is th...ere her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless--for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but they ...are starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden; but they feel as reptiles that infest it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index,... and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own ... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »