When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are ...lit only from one side unused and empty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wheeler: Aren't you the fellow the Mexicans used to call "Brachine"? Dude: That's nearly right. Only it's "Borracho."... Wheeler: I don't think I ever seen you like this before. Dude: You mean sober. You're probably right. You know what "Borracho" means? Wheeler: My Spanish ain't too good. Dude: It means drunk. No, if the name bothers ya' they used to call me Dude.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a man desireth the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigil...ant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (for if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and ...sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of all my prosecutors ... not one is my peer, but each and all are my political sovereigns; and had your honor submitted my case t...o the jury, as was clearly your duty, then I should have had just cause of protest, for not one of those men was my peer; but, native or foreign born, white or black, rich or poor, educated or ignorant, sober or drunk, each and every man of them was my political superior; hence, in no sense, my peer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing that it shall be. It is a... war to found an empire on the negro in slavery, and shame on us if we do not make it a war to establish the negro in freedom--against whom the whole nation, North and South, East and West, in one mighty conspiracy, has combined from the beginning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Playing alone, I found the wall. One side was gray, the other an indelible gray.... The two sides were separated by a third, Or spirit wall, a coarser gray.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »