Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us wee...p for the living, and not for the dead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Foster the labor of our country by an undeviating metallic currency ... always recollecting that if labor is depressed neither com...merce nor manufactures can flourish, as they are both based upon the production of labor, produced from the earth, or the mineral world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting al...l in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What disgraceful scenes in Congress. Is Mr. Adams demented, or is he perversely wicked? Both, I think, and Adams ought to be confi...ned to a hospital.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And William had dudgeon for the sightless beadle Who worshipped a God like a grandmother on ice-skates,... For William saw two angels on the point of a needle As nobody since except W. B. Yeats.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[B]y going to the College [William and Mary] I shall get a more universal Acquaintance, which may hereafter be serviceable to me; ...and I suppose I can pursue my Studies in the Greek and Latin as well there as here, and likewise learn something of the Mathematics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here lies the body of William Jones Who all his life collected bones,... Till Death, that grim and boney spectre, That universal bone collector, Boned old Jones, so neat and tidy, And here he lies, all bona fide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Henry B. Adams was the first in an infinite series to discover and admit to himself that he really did not care whether truth was,... or was not, true. He did not even care that it should be proved true, unless the process were new and amusing. He was a Darwinian for fun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
During those years in Stamps, I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare. He was my first white love.... it was Shakespeare w...ho said, "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes." It was a state of mind with which I found myself most familiar. I pacified myself about his whiteness by saying that after all he had been dead so long it couldn't matter to anyone any more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »