“Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.” FirstsHumansArtBeautifulPiecesSkillsEvidenceVery GoodBeautiful ThingsFormation Book:Selections and Essays Source: Selections and Essays
“The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of family prosperity and private hospitality, ended its days as a tavern.” HomeLightBeautifulStudyRichEvidenceProsperityHospitalityTaverns Book:Stage-coach and Tavern Days Source: Stage-coach and Tavern Days
“Long may it remain in this mixed world a question not easy of decision, which is the more beautiful evidence of the Almighty's goodness, the soft white hand formed for the ministrations of sympathy and tenderness, or the rough hard hand which the heart softens, teaches, and guides in a moment.” WorldHeartMayLongHardMomentsHandsBeautifulEasyWhiteDecisionTeachGoodnessEvidenceGuidesRoughTendernessProvidenceAlmighty Author:Charles Dickens
“Johnson is wise, Boswell foolish; Johnson warns and abstains, Boswell plunges; Johnson is rather a great man writing than a greatwriter, Boswell is a great writer and an ordinary man; and they are two of a kind, abysmal melancholics and compulsive socializers, afraid of solitude and afraid of death and dissolution, victims of themselves, meant for each other, needing each other, needing evidence and arguments (Boswell is a lawyer, Johnson magisterially dictates to him some of his briefs), making beautiful models of rational discourse out of the useful substance of all they know.” KnowsMenWritingKindTwoBeautifulFriendshipWiseSolitudeModelsOrdinaryEvidenceArgumentVictimLawyerFoolishRationalSubstanceGreat MenDiscourseJohnsonPlungeGreat WritersOrdinary ManDissolutionAfraid Of Death Author:Marvin Mudrick