It is one thing to live, another to philosophize. When therefore the question is about the conduct of our lives, and the performan...ce of our duty, we cease to be philosophers, to be opponents, doubtful or uncertain; and become poor, simple credulous idiots; we call things by their names, and re-assume our understanding and manners; we conform our manners to those of other men, and to their laws and customs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissable, for a man to cut himself... off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What I ask of American Christianity is not to show us more creeds, but more of Christ; not more rites and ceremonies, but more rel...igion glowing with love and replete with life,--religion which will be to all weaker races an uplifting power, and not a degrading influence. Jesus Christ has given us a platform of life and duty from which all oppression and selfishness is necessarily excluded. While politicians may stumble on the barren mountains of fretful controversy and ask in strange bewilderment, "What shall we do with the weaker races?" I hold that Jesus Christ answered that question nearly two thousand years since. "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do you even so to them."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Books treating of etiquette ... are often written by dancing-masters and Turveydrops and others knowing little of the customs of t...he best society of any land.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Stern Daughter of the Voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love,... Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.... Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »