To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called... by no meaner name than diplomacy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... to be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assi...milate but one idea at a time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When society comes to value one child more truly, we shall have, for every community, a country homestead where that child can go,... who needs special encouragement. It will not be a penal place, nor even a place of reform, but it will be held out, rather, as a dear delight and a reward. But when society values the child enough, and realises what the child means to the State, and what the home means to the child, it will provide even better, for then the child will have, in its own home, all that a home should give.... There will be safety. There will be the chance to be well, to be pure; room to grow and breathe in; the sacred privacy of the home circle--all those things that are the birthright of every child. And there will be, in some way, beauty, to which the soul of the child naturally turns, as does a plant to the light.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are, undoubtedly, women who are weak and silly, and simple, and who are taken advantage of by designing men. Until we have s...uch systems of education as will tend to prevent women from being weak, simple, and silly, it is undoubtedly right to have laws punishing seduction with the utmost severity; but we have also ... ninnies among men, and ought we not, therefore, to have laws for their protection? An Act of the Legislature entitled "An Act for the Protection of Ninnies against Designing Women" would be refreshing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No legislation can suppress nature; all life rushes to reproduction; our procreative faculties are matured early, while passion is... strong, and judgment and self-restraint weak. We cannot alter this, but we can alter what is conventional. We can refuse to brand an act of nature as a crime, and to impute to vice what is due to ignorance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external worl...d by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives its final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment t...o your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For I choose that my remembrances of him should be pleasing, affecting, religious. I will love him as a glorified friend, after th...e free way of friendship, and not pay him a stiff sign of respect, as men do to those whom they fear. A passage read from his discourses, a moving provocation to works like his, any act or meeting which tends to awaken a pure thought, a flow of love, an original design of virtue, I call a worthy, a true commemoration.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the convict...ion that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »