Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of dreaming ... helped to build up the notion of an unreal or spiritual world; and in general, all the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
No other book has been so chopped, knifed, sifted, scrutinized, and vilified. What book on philosophy or religion or psychology or belles… — Bernard Ramm Copy Share Image
A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding… — Michael Silverblatt Copy Share Image
If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the mass spirit,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
