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
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.
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