In the nineteenth century ... explanations of who and what women were focused primarily on reproductive events--marriage, children..., the empty nest, menopause. You could explain what was happening in a woman's life, it was believed, if you knew where she was in this reproductive cycle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there ...is no imagining what new forms they may assume.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Although my parents have never been the kind to hint around about grandchildren, I can think of no better tribute to them than giv...ing them some.... I can't help thinking that the cycle is not complete until I can introduce them to a child of their child. And I can think of no better comfort when they are gone than to know that something of them lives on, not only in me but in my children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our civilization has decided ... that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained ...men.... When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other... men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system--with all these exalted powers--man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment,... Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word. All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nor does the family even move about together, But every son would have his motor cycle,... And daughters ride away on casual pillions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year,... Of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakspeare's strain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not, among the most r...eligious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral sentiment, and a sufficient belief in the unity of things to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial restraints, as well as the solar system; or that the private citizen might be reasonable, and a good neighbor, without the hint of a jail or a confiscation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »