No throne exists that has a right to exist, and no symbol of it, flying from any flagstaff, is righteously entitled to wear any de...vice but the skull and crossbones of that kindred industry which differs from royalty only businesswise-merely as retail differs from wholesale.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
. . . Look! this flesh how it crumbles to dust and is blown! These bones, how they grind in the granite of frost and are noth...ing! This skull, how it yawns for a flicker of time in the darkness, Yet laughs not and sees not!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hell is out of fashion--institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the ...gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull.... A valid hell is one from which there is a possibility of redemption, even if this is never achieved, the dungeons of an architecture of grace whose spires point to some kind of heaven. The institutional hells of the present century are reached with one-way tickets, marked Nagasaki and Buchenwald, worlds of terminal horror even more final than the grave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't have to pound on that thick skull of yours and make big speeches as to what this mission means to us. I think you know. If... you do good, it means the lives of several thousand men, so do good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but... whether or not proportionally to his larger body, has not, I believe, been fully ascertained. In woman the face is rounder; the jaws and the base of skull smaller; the outlines of the body rounder, in parts more prominent; and her pelvis is broader than in man; but this latter character may perhaps be considered rather as a primary than a secondary sexual character. She comes to maturity at an earlier age than man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game..., then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pompeii has nothing to teach us, we know crack of volcanic fissure,... slow flow of terrible lava, pressure on heart, lungs, the brain about to burst its brittle case (what the skull can endure!)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »