If he should take back his spirit to himself, and gather to himself his breath, all flesh would perish together, and all mortals r...eturn to dust.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mind can make Substance, and people planets of its own... With beings brighter than have been, and give A breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Jim," she said earnestly, "if I was put down there in the middle of the night, I could find my way all over that little town; and... along the river to the next town, where my grandmother lived. My feet remember all the little paths through the woods, and where the big roots stick out to trip you. I ain't never forgot my own country."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cheat me not with time, with the dull ache of flesh,... for all flesh turns, even the loveliest ankle and frail thigh, to bitterest dust.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We're headed for collapse, if you want my opinion, Missy. I can see it in the fallin' off of the quality of vagrants. There was a ...time you could find real good company in almost any jungle you'd pick, men who could talk, men who'd read a book now and then; and now, what do you find, a lot of dirty little guttersnipes no decent tramp would want to associate with. Well, it's been that way all through history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bonnie Lee: Mr. Carter, Mr. Carter, do you really think, I mean, do you really think it was my fault, what happened out there? .../>Geoff Carter: Sure it was your fault. You were gonna have dinner with him, the Dutchman hired him, I sent him up on schedule, the fog came in, a tree got in the way. All your fault. Forget it unless you want the honor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country wheth...er he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls' curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well, Mr. Thornton, you are a wonder. It looks the way all Irish cottages should and so seldom do. And only an American would have... thought of emerald green.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just. Therefore it is... necessary to tell them at the same time that they must obey them because they are laws, just as they must obey superiors, not because they are just, but because they are superiors. In this way all sedition is prevented.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But I, being man, can kiss And bed-spread-eagle too;... All flesh shall come to this, Being less than angel is, Yet higher far in bliss As it entwines with you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »