[T]here is no situation so deplorable ... as that of a gentlewoman in real poverty.... Birth, family, and education become misfort...unes when we cannot attain some means of supporting ourselves in the station they throw us into. Our friends and former acquaintances look on it as a disgrace to own us.... If we were to attempt getting our living by any trade, people in that station would think we were endeavoring to take their bread out of their mouths.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust ...your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A major misunderstanding of child rearing has been the idea that meeting a child's needs is an end in itself, for the purpose of t...he child's mental health. Mothers have not understood that this is but one step in social development, the goal of which is to help a child begin to consider others. As a result, they often have not considered their children but have instead allowed their children's reality to take precedence, out of a fear of damaging them emotionally.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You do me wrong to take me out o' th' grave: Thou art a soul in bliss, but I am bound... Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine;Mthey are the life, the soul of reading!--take them out of this book, for instance,--...you might as well take the book along with them;Mone cold external winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer;Mhe steps forth like a bridegroom,--bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If, for instance, a man asserts the value of individual liberty over the merely political commonweal, his neighbor still tolerates... him,... sometimes even sustains him, but never the State. Its officer, as a living man, may have human virtues and a thought in his brain, but as the tool of an institution, a jailor or constable it may be, he is not a whit superior to his prison key or his staff. Herein is the tragedy: that men doing outrage to their proper natures, even those called wise and good, lend themselves to perform the office of inferior and brutal ones. Hence come war and slavery in; and what else may not come in by this opening? But certainly there are modes by which a man may put bread in his mouth which will not prejudice him as a companion and neighbor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well, kid, there are more things in this life than you can possibly imagine. I knew a whore once in Wilmington. She had a glass ey...e. She used to take it out and work people off for a dollar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »