Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challenge ...is; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Playing games with agreed upon rules helps children learn to live by rules, establish the delicate balance between competition and... cooperation, between fair play and justice and exploitation and abuse of these for personal gain. It helps them learn to manage the warmth of winning and the hurt of losing; it helps them to believe that there will be another chance to win the next time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and m...oral conduct.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at schools which provide in some form fo...r industrial education. These two points should be insisted upon. Let the normal instruction be that men must earn their own living, and that by the labor of their hands as far as may be. This is the gospel of salvation for the colored man. Let the labor not be servile, but in manly occupations like that of the carpenter, the farmer, and the blacksmith.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far... more fundamentally upon the moral and intellectual qualities of human beings--upon the spirit that animates mankind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I allude to these facts to show that, so far from the Supper being a tradition in which men are fully agreed, there has always bee...n the widest room for difference of opinion upon this particular. Having recently given particular attention to this subject, I was led to the conclusion that Jesus did not intend to establish an institution for perpetual observance when he ate the Passover with his disciples; and further, to the opinion that it is not expedient to celebrate it as we do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It will be agreed that the essential difference between humour and wit is that, whereas wit is always intentional, humour is alway...s unintentional. Wit possess an object; it is critical, aggressive, and often cruel; it depends for its success upon condescension, revelation, suddenness, and surprise, and it necessitates a quick and deliberate motion of the mind; it is not a private indulgence but invariably needs an audience; it is thus a social phenomenon. Humour on the other hand has no object; it does not seek to wound others, it seeks only to protect the self; it is not a sword but a shield. So far from entailing an expenditure of intellectual or psychic effort, it seeks to economise that effort; it does not depend on suddenness or surprise, but is contemplative, conciliatory, ruminating; and it is largely a private indulgence and does not require an audience for its enjoyment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It seems to me that science has a much greater likelihood of being true in the main than any philosophy hitherto advanced (I do no...t, of course, except my own). In science there are many matters about which people are agreed; in philosophy there are none. Therefore, although each proposition in a science may be false, and it is practically certain that there are some that are false, yet we shall be wise to build our philosophy upon science, because the risk of error in philosophy is pretty sure to be greater than in science. If we could hope for certainty in philosophy, the matter would be otherwise, but so far as I can see such a hope would be a chimerical.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ecclesiastical history of this town interested us somewhat. It appears that ... "in 1662, the town agreed that a part of every... whale cast on shore be appropriated for the support of the ministry." No doubt there seemed to be some propriety in thus leaving the support of the ministers to Providence, whose servants they are, and who alone rules the storms; for, when few whales were cast up, they might suspect that their worship was not acceptable. The ministers must have sat upon the cliffs in every storm, and watched the shore with anxiety. And, for my part, if I were a minister, I would rather trust to the bowels of the billows, on the back side of Cape Cod, to cast up a whale for me, than to the generosity of many a country parish I know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
the vagabond began To sketch a face that well might buy the soul of any man.... Then, as he placed another lock upon the shapely head, With a fearful shriek, he leaped and fell across the picture--dead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »