Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of... the Law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now I was eight and very small, And he was no whit bigger,... And so I smiled, but he poked out His tongue, and called me, "Nigger."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You the rich are no whit more attractive or capable than you who were poor and struggling a few years back. But when before you pl...odded lonely and unappreciated, now the glamour of the motor and the smart apartment surrounds you with a tangible glory. It is amazing how many friends look you up, call you by name, and extol you, who were once a little timid, or indifferent, or utterly neglectful in your time of dire poverty. One has true friends when one is poor and no riches can be greater than that. They are not so obvious when one is rich.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a mo...re agreeable name.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It shall be said his judgment ruled our hands. Our youths and wildness shall no whit appear,... But all be buried in his gravity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,... And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail; When blood is nipped, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl: Tu-whit, tu-whoo!-- A merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If, for instance, a man asserts the value of individual liberty over the merely political commonweal, his neighbor still tolerates... him,... sometimes even sustains him, but never the State. Its officer, as a living man, may have human virtues and a thought in his brain, but as the tool of an institution, a jailor or constable it may be, he is not a whit superior to his prison key or his staff. Herein is the tragedy: that men doing outrage to their proper natures, even those called wise and good, lend themselves to perform the office of inferior and brutal ones. Hence come war and slavery in; and what else may not come in by this opening? But certainly there are modes by which a man may put bread in his mouth which will not prejudice him as a companion and neighbor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It is remarkabl...e what a serious business men make of getting their dinners, and how universally shiftlessness and a groveling taste take refuge in a merely ant-like industry. Better go without your dinner, I thought, than be thus everlastingly fishing for it like a cormorant. Of course, viewed from the shore, our pursuits in the country appear not a whit less frivolous.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of in...justice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »