As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleas...antry is liable to be misunderstood--a circumstance at all times unpleasant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, t...hey eat only one sweet at a time, but later on, they make Society pay dearly for it!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you have wit, use it to please, and not to hurt; you may shine, like the sun in the temperature zones, without scorching. Here ...it is wished for; under the Line it is dreaded.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The English public are not yet ripe to comprehend the essential difference between the reason and the understanding,--between a pr...inciple and a maxim--an eternal truth and a mere conclusion from a generalization of a great number of facts.... Suppose Adam watching the sun sinking under the horizon for the first time; he is seized with gloom and terror, relieved with scarce a ray of hope of ever seeing the glorious light again. The next evening when it declines, his hopes are stronger but mixed with fear, and even at the end of 1000 years, all that a man can feel, is hope and an expectation so strong as to preclude anxiety. Compare this in its highest degree with the assurance which you have that the two sides of any triangle are greater than the third. This demonstrated of one triangle is seen to be eternally true of all imaginable triangles. This is the truth perceived at once by the reason, wholly independently of experience. It is and must ever be so, multiply and vary the shapes and sizes of triangles as you may.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come un...der the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Because of something told under the famished horn Of the hunter's moon, that hung between the night and the day,... To dream of women whose beauty was folded in dismay, Even in an old story, is a burden not to be borne.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am a sort of martyr, as you see, A horizontal monument to patience.... The calves of waitresses parade about My helpless head upon this sodden floor. Well, I am down again, but not yet out. O sweet frustrations, I shall be back for more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »