· There is no end to the making of books. Nor does there seem to be any end to the making of lists of “great books.” There have always been more books than anyone could read. And as they have multiplied through the centuries, more and more blue-ribbon listshave had to be made. No matter how long your life, you will, at best, be able to read only a few books of all that have been written, and the few you do read should include the best. You can rejoice in the fact that the number of such i……
· Good little girls ought not to make mouths at their teachers for every trifling offense. This kind of retaliation should only be resorted to under peculiarly aggravating circumstances. If you have nothing but a rag doll stuffed with saw-dust, while one of your more fortunate little playmates has a costly china one, you should treat her with a show of kindness, nevertheless. And you ought not to attempt to make a forcible swap with her unless your conscience would justify you in it, and ……
· Mark Twain delivered this speech on June 9, 1909, at the graduation ceremony of Misses Tewksburys School in Baltimore, Maryland. Frances Nunnally was graduating and he had promised to attend her graduation. They met on board the Minneapolis during Twains 1907 trip to England to receive an honorary degree from Oxford University and she became a member of his Aquarium Club. Twains brief remarks at her graduation was his last public speech. I dont know what to tell you girls to do. Mr. Mar……
· In a recent issue of the Independent, the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, of Brooklyn, has the following utterance on the subject of Smells: I have a good Christian friend who, if he sat in the front pew in church, and a working man should enter the door at the other end would smell him instantly. My friend is not to blame for the sensitiveness of his nose, any more than you would flog a pointer for being keener on the scent than a stupid watch-dog. The fact is, if you had all the churches fre……
· AM IN THE fortunate, or unfortunate, position of having twin daughters at university. Fortunate to have them; unfortunate in that everything comes at double cost. This includes paying rent for their accommodation. We have only just managed, yet again, to find them somewhere to live for their final year. It is the third year in a row that I am being ripped off by greedy landlords who line their pockets at the expense of students desperate for somewhere to live. Both daughters are doing ……
· FIVE musicians in neat evening dress were singing Mozarts Requiem in a bombed-out library, or rather amid a heap of rubble. The rough venue and tight security check had kept down the audience, but the concert was being televised live on international media networks —— to raise charity funds, incidentally. It was an incongruous situation. The air was resonant with the music and songs mourning for the countless lives lost in the war. Gunfire of hatred could destroy everything physical, bu……
· THE SMELL of wood, refreshingly sweet, greeted me even before I sat down at the round table. As if breathing along with the trees, I felt a simple, primitive joy when admiring those furniture and home articles shaped and carved out of cedar in the heritage museum village of San Antonio, an old-time riverside town down south in the United States. The craftsman, Arnold, came from a family of carpenters. As a Vietnam War veteran, he related to me, a visitor from Asia, how he had fought aga……
· FLOWERS and coconut leaves are daily necessities in Balinese life. Along with cooked rice, they are normal gifts to gods as the natives of Bali, “Island of Sacrifices”, set offerings in front of their houses every day, not to mention on special dates. You get a glimpse of the islanders carefree lifestyle from the common scene of small clusters of farmers enjoying a leisurely chat by the paddy fields, having laid down their hoes. A recess could easily last two or three hours, according t……
· I didnt cry when I learned I was the parent of a mentally handicapped child. I just sat still and didnt say anything while my husband and I were informed that two-year-old Kristi was - as we suspected - retarded. “Go ahead and cry，” the doctor advised kindly. “Helps prevent serious emotional difficulties.” Serious difficulties notwithstanding， I couldnt cry then nor during the months that followed. When Kristi was old enough to attend school， we enrolled her in our neighborhood school……
· Language is invented by sheer inspiration, according to the Taoists. Tagore echoed： Gods silence ripens mans thoughts into speech. I have reached my conclusion： You can be god if you shut up your mouth. 神的静默使人的思想成熟而为语言。 Language blurs your mind, and projects a distorted picture of the reality, because truth is beyond the ability of language——a delicate and confusing system that is nevertheless vital to human beings. Tagore commented： What you are you do not see, what you see is your sh……
· Love Can Last Forever I can honestly say it was the best of times and the worst of times. I was joyfully expecting my first child at the same time that my once-energetic, zestful mother was losing her battle with a brain tumor（脑瘤）. For ten years, my fiercely independent and courageous mother had fought, but none of the surgeries or treatments had been successful. Still, she never lost her ability to smile. But now, finally, at only fifty-five, she became totally disabled —— unable to s……
· If you look around at the men and women whom you can call happy, you will see that they all have certain things in common. The most important of these things is an activity which at most gradually builds up something that you are glad to see coming into existence. Women who take an instinctive pleasure in their children can get this kind of satisfaction out of bringing up a family. Artists and authors and men of science get happiness in this way if their own work seems good to them. But ……
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