The first memory I have of him -- of anything, really -- is his strength. It was in the late afternoon in a house under construction near ours. The un...
Tears from the sky,Softly falling.In the morning,It breaks my dreams.Wake the grass up,Let the sun hide.Thou are singingOr thou are weeping?Xi-li... x...
Landing in France, a sacred feeling suddenly arises which attracts you to know more about this country. France, approximately hexagonal(六边的) in shape,...
Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; ...
It had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words, than in that speech, Whatsoever is delighted in solit...
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set; and surely virtue is best, in a body that is comely, though not of delicate features; and that hath rathe...
There be none of the affections, which have been noted to fascinate or bewitch(施魔法,蛊惑), but love and envy. They both have vehement(激烈的) wishes; they f...
Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but...
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education, in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entran...
The joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears. They cannot utter the one; nor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten labo...