Yesterday, December 7, 1941Ma date that will live in infamy--the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked b...y naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it agai...n and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With what joy I begin to read a poem, which I confide in as an inspiration! And now my chains are to be broken; I shall mount abov...e these clouds and opaque airs in which I live,--opaque, though they seem transparent,--and from the heaven of truth I shall see and comprehend my relations. That will reconcile me to life, and renovate nature, to see trifles animated by tendency, and to know what I am doing. Life will no more be a noise; now I shall see men and women, and know the signs by which they may be discerned from fools and satans. This day shall be better than my birth-days: then I became an animal: now I am invited into the science of the real.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As for adopting the ways which the State has provided for remedying the evil, I know not of such ways. They take too much time, an...d a man's life will be gone. I have other affairs to attend to. I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad. A man has not everything to do, but something; and because he cannot do everything, it is not necessary that he should do something wrong. It is not my business to be petitioning the Governor or the Legislature any more than it is theirs to petition me; and if they should not hear my petition, what should I do then? But in this case the State has provided no way: its very Constitution is evil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[The Settlement House] must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy whic...h will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. "I will be a saint" means I will despoil myself of all that is not God...; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make myself a willing slave to the will of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The era of the Wild Apple will soon be past. It is a fruit which will probably become extinct in New England.... Since the tempera...nce reform and the general introduction of grafted fruit, no native apple trees, such as I see everywhere in deserted pastures, and where the woods have grown up around them, are set out. I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!... Now that they have grafted trees, and pay a price for them, they collect them into a play by their houses, and fence them in,--and the end of it all will be that we shall be compelled to look for our apples in a barrel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A wise man will live as much within his wit as his income.... Bear this truth always in your mind, that you may be admired for you...r wit, if you have any; but that nothing but good sense and good qualities can make you be loved.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, "Know thyself," and too often leads to a self-estimate which wil...l subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »