The climate of Ohio is perfect, considered as the home of an ideal republican people. Climate has much to do with national charact...er.... A climate which permits labor out-of-doors every month in the year and which requires industry to secure comfort--to provide food, shelter, clothing, fuel, etc.--is the very climate which secures the highest civilization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,... there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At the moment when a man openly makes known his difference of opinion from a well-known party leader, the whole world thinks that ...he must be angry with the latter. Sometimes, however, he is just on the point of ceasing to be angry with him. He ventures to put himself on the same plane as his opponent, and is free from the tortures of suppressed envy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate particular aspects of the constella...tion of his personality which had previously remained obscure and unrecognizable under another constellation of opinions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Heaping glowing coals on another person's head is usually misunderstood and comes to nothing because the other person knows just a...s well that he is in the right and has also given some thought on his own part to heaping coals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradic...t themselves by their own feelings--their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »