It is said that he once had a sore toe that so annoyed him that he went to the woodpile and chopped it off with an axe, quoting th...e Scripture, 'If thy foot offend thee, cut it off.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Girl of the Period, sauntering before one down Broadway, is one panorama of awful surprises from top to toe. Her clothes chara...cterize her. She never characterizes her clothes. She is upholstered, not ornamented. She is bundled, not draped. She is puckered, not folded. She struts, she does not sweep. She has not one of the attributes of nature nor of proper art. She neither soothes the eye like a flower, nor pleases it like a picture. She wearies it like a kaleidoscope. She is a meaningless dazzle of broken effects.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. Alcott seems to have sat down for the winter. He has got Plato and other books to read. He is as large-featured and hospitable... to traveling thoughts and thinkers as ever; but with the same Connecticut philosophy as ever, mingled with what is better. If he would only stand upright and toe the line!--though he were to put off several degrees of largeness, and put on a considerable degree of littleness. After all, I think we must call him particularly your man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent. The res...t of the fraternity is deadwood. Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,... And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood, Stop up th'access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between Th'effect and it. Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Perhaps of all our untamed quadrupeds, the fox has obtained the widest and most familiar reputation.... His recent tracks still gi...ve variety to a winter's walk. I tread in the steps of the fox that has gone before me by some hours, or which perhaps I have started, with such a tip-toe of expectation as if I were on the trail of the Spirit itself which resides in the wood, and expected soon to catch it in its lair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to... stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who to...uches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse. Then it seems to me I am allowed to see the heart of the world uncovered for a moment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »