If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are. |
If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen. |
If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican? |
Ignorance is the womb of monsters |
In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; At noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; And at night, it crushes us flat to the ground |
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot. |
In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands |
In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. |
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich |
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast |
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth. |
It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stony street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun |
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that men makes invincible |
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement |
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. |