A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health.
It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.
There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.
Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times; that the symptoms of it are in fact very prevalent, and that one of the chief symptoms is an enormous 'gluttonism' for books.
No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.
The science of style as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style.
Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.
Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation — at least, not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.
Acting is fun; it's easier than writing, and if you get on a [TV] show, it draws people to your stand-up. That's ultimately what I'd like to do.
I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.
The Jews are the most hateful and the most shameful of the small nations.