The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savours less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if ...we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they wer...e aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting e...fforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self- will, more than of reason or even of self-interest.... Even in the common ...transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With sympathy and with reverence we greet you on the soil ennobled by the blood of your courageous sons, whose sacrifices have cre...ated a bond between us which can never be broken. The world cannot measure your tragic loss. You have suffered in silence and alone with courage and love. You have given to the Great Cause something more precious than your own life blood. And the altar of freedom is wet with your tears.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols--it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, ...of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »