Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirl...ing around on it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As he walks away on his own two feet--the toddler's body-mind has reached its moment of perfection. The world is his and he the mi...ghty conqueror of all he beholds.... As long as mother sticks around in the wings, the mighty acrobat confidently performs his trick of twirling in circles, walking on tiptoe, jumping, climbing, staring, naming. He is joyous, filled with his grandeur and wondrous omnipotence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you take this life to be simply what old religious folks pretend (I mean the effete, gone to seed in a drought, mere human gall...s stung by the devil once), then all your joy and serenity is reduced to grinning and bearing it. The fact is, you have got to take the world on your shoulders like Atlas, and "put along" with it. You will do this for an idea's sake, and your success will be in proportion to your devotion to ideas. It may make your back ache occasionally, but you will have the satisfaction of hanging it or twirling it to suit yourself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword,... The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »