Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
fire light
Is not light grander than fire?
mean clothes soul
How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?
hero successful gone
Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.
real reading attention
Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.
men evil shadow
Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.
distance insecure men
With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with more surprise. Two little visual spectra of men, hovering with insecure enough cohesion in the midst of the unfathomable, and to dissolve therein, at any rate, very soon, make pause at the distance of twelve paces asunder; whirl around, and simultaneously by the cunningest mechanism, explode one another into dissolution; and, offhand, become air, and non-extant--the little spitfires!
death remedy all-things
There are remedies for all things but death.
death want awake
I want to meet my God awake.
book men doctors
A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution; and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.
heart python america
Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.
ambition men desire
No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.
rogues cunning devilish
Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.
waiting revolution governors
Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.
spring past remembrance
The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.