There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of thi...s cruel, maneating idol, lucre.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personal ...relations. But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words. For persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what i...s negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact.... In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue s...urvives. In the coldest and bleakest places, the warmest charities still maintain a foothold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion, the co...ldest and most unconcerned cruelty, so when any group sees itself as the bearer of civilization this very belief will betray it into behaving barbarously at the first opportunity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »