Eyes--the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes. A blind person is like a city abandoned by the authorities. On... sad days they cry. In these carefree times they weep only from tender emotions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is n...o danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine stump. With it co...mes a Latin grammar,--and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main... sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kow-tow before any United States pro-consul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The places which I have described may seem strange and remote to my townsmen ... our account may have made no impression on your m...inds. But what is our account? In it there is no roar, no beach-birds, no tow-cloth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...the hard work and poverty of my childhood ... turned out to be my greatest asset in later years. Nothing could ever seem too ha...rd after that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »