Heard someone say children are god's gift to the world. What world are you referring to? And what's your definition of gift?
. . . to mention honor was to suggest its opposite.
I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are reckoning without the facts. The proportions and relations of things are just as much facts as the things themselves.
The only Christian work is good work, well done
Praise God (or whatever it is) from (if direction exists) whom (if personality exists) all blessings (if that word corresponds to any percept of objective reality) flow (if Heraclitus and Bergson and Einstein are correct in stating that everything is more or less flowing about).
Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to them, or you are moved to the marrow by walls that climb and branch, and break into a inflorescence of pinnacles.
Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
I never say of an operation that it is without danger.
Sam Phillips always encouraged me to do it my way, to use whatever other influences I wanted, but never to copy. . . if there hadn't been a Sam Phillips, I might still be working in a cotton field.
Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?
If a young woman is looking at the landscape of Hollywood, what she sees is almost only challenges.