The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas ...to fashion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have to recognise, that the gin-palace, like many other evils, although a poisonous, is still a natural outgrowth of our social... conditions. The tap-room in many cases is the poor man's only parlour. Many a man takes to beer, not from the love of beer, but from a natural craving for the light, warmth, company, and comfort which is thrown in along with the beer, and which he cannot get excepting by buying beer. Reformers will never get rid of the drink shop until they can outbid it in the subsidiary attractions which it offers to its customers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion--these are the most valuable coin of the t...hinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For he could coin, or counterfeit New words, with little or no wit;... Words so debas'd and hard, no stone Was hard enough to touch them on; And when with hasty noise he spoke 'em; The ignorant for current took 'em;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Constancy ... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such conterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep: it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; 'tis mea...t for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. 'Tis the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise-man even. There is only one thing ... that I dislike in sleep; 'tis that it resembles death; there's very little difference between a man in his first sleep, and a man in his last sleep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death ...should be the coin of what we call civilization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The moral equalizes all; enriches, empowers all. It is the coin which buys all, and which all find in their pocket. Under the whip... of the driver, the slave shall feel his equality with saints and heroes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »