The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest |
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society. |
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure |
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain. |
The virtue in most request is conformity. |
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices. |
The walking of man and all animals, is a falling forward |
The walking of Man is falling forwards. |
The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that man are convertible. |
The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting. |
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear |
The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting. |
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. |
The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor. |
The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us |