In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
Category Archive: 1871
The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms.
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
A man’s true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.
Did anyone ever have a boring dream?