Many people now believe that if fathers are more involved in raising children than they were, children and sons in particular will... learn that men can be warm and supportive of others as well as be high achievers. Thus, fathers' involvement may be beneficial not because it will help support traditional male roles, but because it will help break them down.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altog...ether open.... Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret str...iving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pari...ahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have not the motive to prepare ourselves for a "life-work" of teaching, of social work--we know that we would lay it down with ...hallelujah in the height of our success, to make a home for the right man. And all the time in the background of our consciousness rings the warning that perhaps the right man will never come. A great love is given to very few. Perhaps this make-shift time filler of a job is our life work after all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have always laid it down as a maxim--and found it justified by experience--that a man and a woman make far better friendships th...an can exist between two of the same sex--but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »