You should also look for able men among all the people, men who fear God, are trustworthy, and hate dishonest gain; set such men o...ver them as officers over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. Let them sit as judges for the people at all times; let them bring every important case to you, but decide every minor case themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By this also ye must know that women have dominion over you: do ye not labour and toil, and give and bring all to the woman? Yea, ...a man taketh his sword, and goeth his way to rob and to steal, to sail upon the sea and upon rivers, and looketh upon a lion, and goeth in the darkness; and when he hath stolen, spoiled, and robbed, he bringeth it to his love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The custard is setting; meanwhile I not only have my own history to worry about... But am forced to fret over insufficient details related to large Unfinished concepts that can never bring themselves to the point Of being, with or without my help, if any were forthcoming.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do you think the porter and the cook have no anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for you? Every body knows as much as the savant.... The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There must be a solemn and terrible aloneness that comes over the child as he takes those first independent steps. All this is lo...st to memory and we can only reconstruct it through analogies in later life....To the child who takes his first steps and finds himself walking alone, this moment must bring the first sharp sense of the uniqueness and separateness of his body and his person, the discovery of the solitary self.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace ...to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most glorious Lord of life! that, on this day, Didst make thy triumph over death and sin;... And, having harrowed hell, didst bring away Captivity thence captive, us to win:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Separating ourselves from the crowd, we walked up a narrow street, thence ascended by some wooden steps, called the Break-neck Sta...irs, into another steep, narrow, and zigzag street, blasted through the rock, which last led through a low, massive stone portal, called Prescott Gate, the principal thoroughfare into the Upper Town. This passage was defended by cannon, with a guard-house over it, a sentinel at his post, and other soldiers at hand ready to relieve him. I rubbed my eyes to be sure that I was in the Nineteenth Century, and was not entering one of those portals which sometimes adorn the frontispieces of new editions of old black-letter volumes. I thought it would be a good place to read Froissart's Chronicles. It was such a reminiscence of the Middle Ages as Scott's novels. Men apparently dwelt there for security! Peace be unto them! As if the inhabitants of New York were to go over to Castle William to live! What a place it must be to bring up children!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other exp...erience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked; that you are beholding what human eye has not seen before; that you are breathing a virgin atmosphere. To give birth to an idea, to discovery a great thought--an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain-plough had gone over before. To find a new planet, to invent a new hinge, to find a way to make the lightnings carry your messages. To be the first--that is the idea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »