The men are magnificent--the young men tall, well formed, and admirably dressed; the old men positively beautiful, with their fres...h complexions, white hair, and admirable neatness. Nothing struck me more than this, and we might copy it to advantage here. As an Englishman grows older he becomes more and more careful in his dress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People on the East Coast regard people west of, say, Philadelphia as either slightly cute or slightly repugnant, alien life forms.... Any show that comes from out of town to New York invariably gets a review which says in effect, "They might like this stuff in Hicksville, but this is the Apple, Kids. This is the eye of God." Californians don't have that kind of arrogance, luckily, because they can't pay attention long enough to finish anything. That's why so many Californians are consultants or producers, and so many people in the East are writers or directors. Never mind that most writers on the best-seller lists couldn't put a well-formed sentence together if you gave them the glue, or that the so-called "serious" writers only write about writers writing stories about writers writing stories, the two coasts are still the cultural power centers of America: books, theater, and art in the East; movies, music, and TV in the West.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had now formed a clear and settled opinion, that the people of America were well warranted to resist a claim that their fellow-s...ubjects in the mother-country should have the entire command of their fortunes, by taxing them without their consent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She turns and looks a moment in the glass, Hardly aware of her departed lover;... Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass: "Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed. F...or, skepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless, but are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as must include the oldest beliefs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the Union is now dissolved it does not prove that the experiment of popular government is a failure.... But the experiment of u...niting free states and slaveholding states in one nation is, perhaps, a failure.... There probably is an "irrepressible conflict" between freedom and slavery. It may as well be admitted, and our new relations may as be formed with that as an admitted fact.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives there...fore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not lived; for life doth her great actions spell, By what was done and wrought... In season, and so brought To light: her measures are, how well Each syllab'e answered, and was formed how fair; These make the lines of life, and that's her air.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The more conscientious preachers, the Bible men, they who talk about principle, and doing to others as you would that they should ...do unto you,--how could they fail to recognize him, by far the greatest preacher of them all, with the Bible in his life and in his acts, the embodiment of principle, who actually carried out the golden rule? All whose moral sense had been aroused, who had a calling from on high to preach, sided with him. What confessions he extracted from the cold and conservative! It is remarkable, but on the whole it is well, that it did not prove the occasion for a new sect of Brownites being formed in our midst.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing could be so beautiful, so smart, so well drilled as the two armies. Trumpets, fifes, oboes, drums, cannons formed a harmon...y such as was never heard in hell.... Candide, trembling like a philosopher, hid himself as best he could during this heroic butchery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »