Alas, the fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself |
All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone. |
All great peoples are conservative. |
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you. |
All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing. |
All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work alone is noble |
As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true. |
As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden, - "Speech is silver, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity |
Be not a slave of words. |
Be not the slave of Words. |
Biography is the only true history |
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. |
Burke said that there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate, more important far than they all. |
But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. |
By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears. |