I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to follow ...any idea, wise or mad that may present itself.... My ideas are my harlots.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem to ...measure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause. It is vain to get rid of them by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again. The child will sit in your arms contented if you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be ex...ercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!... The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odor which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses. But, for their virtue only is their show. They live unwooed and unrespected fade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odors made. And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall vade, by verse distills your truthLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure th...at he does. The hare in its extremity cries like a child. I warn you, mothers, that my sympathies do not always make the usual philanthropic distinctions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have been reporting club meetings for four years and I am tired of hearing reviews of the books I was brought up on. I am tired ...of amateur performances at occasions announced to be for purposes either of enjoyment or improvement. I am tired of suffering under the pretense of acquiring culture. I am tired of hearing the word "culture" used so wantonly. I am tired of essays that let no guilty author escape quotation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »