Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must the...refore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul...; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have never worked for fame or praise, and shall not feel their loss as I otherwise would. I have never for a moment lost sight o...f the humble life I was born to, its small environments, and the consequently little right I had to expect much of myself, and shall have the less to censure, or upbraid myself with for the failures I must see myself make.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced pe...ople endeavour to do, he drowns.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Birth, and copulation, and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks:... Birth, and copulation, and death. I've been born, and once is enough. You dont remember, but I remember, Once is enough.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has behind him ages... of education, dominion, civilization, and Christianity, if he stands opposed to the passage of a national education bill, whose purpose is to secure education to the children of those who were born under the shadow of institutions which made it a crime to read.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As we grow older, we should learn that these are two quite different things. Character is something you forge for yourself; temper...ament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify. Some people have easy temperaments and weak characters; others have difficult temperaments and strong characters. We are all prone to confuse the two in assessing people we associate with. Those with easy temperaments and weak characters are more likable than admirable; those with difficult temperaments and strong characters are more admirable than likable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »