How happy the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival c...an ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Chief Justice. Your means are very slender, and your waste is great. Falstaff. I would it were otherwise. I would my means we...re greater, and my waist slenderer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They shall yet belie thy happy years That say thou art a man. Diana's lip... Is not more smooth and rubious; thy small pipe Is as the maiden's organ, shrill and sound, And all is semblative a woman's part.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In companions That do converse and waste the time together,... Whose souls do bear an equal yoke of love, There must be needs a like proportion Of lineaments, of manners, and of spirit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action; and, till action, lust... Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame, Savage, extreme, rude, cruel not to trust; Enjoyed no sooner but despised straight; Past reason hunted, and no sooner had, Past reason hated as a swallowed bait On purpose laid to make the taker mad; Mad in pursuit, and in possession so; Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme; A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe, Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream. All this the world well knows, yet none knows well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He sustained him in a desert land, in a howling wilderness waste; he shielded him, cared for him, guarded him as the apple of his ...eye.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The American mind exasperated the European as a buzz-saw might exasperate a pine-forest. The English mind disliked the French mind... because it was antagonistic, unreasonable, perhaps hostile, but recognized it as at least a thought. The American mind was not a thought at all; it was a convention, superficial, narrow, and ignorant; a mere cutting instrument, practical, economical, sharp and direct. The English themselves hardly conceived that their mind was either economical, sharp or direct; but the defect that most struck an American was its enormous waste in eccentricity. Americans needed and used their whole energy, and applied it with close economy; but English society was eccentric by law and for sake of the eccentricity itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »