"If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then ...come, follow me." When the young man heard this word, he went away grieving, for he had many possessions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The woman who is rearing a family of children; the woman who labors in the schoolroom; the woman who, in her retired chamber, earn...s, with her needle, the mite, which contributes to the intellectual and moral elevation of her Country; even the humble domestic, whose example and influence may be moulding and forming young minds, while her faithful services sustain a prosperous domestic state;Meach and all may be animated by the consciousness, that they are agents in accomplishing the greatest work that ever was committed to human responsibility. It is the building of a glorious temple, whose base shall be coextensive with the bounds of the earth, whose summit shall pierce the skies, whose splendor shall beam on all lands; and those who hew the lowliest stone, as much as those who carve the highest capital, will be equally honored, when its top-stone shall be laid, with new rejoicings of the morning stars, and shoutings of the sons of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Young men all of us--we've got to be. You know why? I'll give you two good reasons. We jump out of planes, and guys shoot at us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... we have the satisfaction of knowing that because all of us believed, we inspired, motivated, and liberated some of the most be...autiful people on earth--young, gifted, and black.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered oth...erwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hear, then, a mortal Muse thy praise rehearse, In no ignoble verse;... But such as thy own voice did practise here, When thy first-fruits of Poesy were given, To make thyself a welcome inmate there; While yet a young probationer, And candidate of Heaven.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I was young ... there never was any question about right and wrong. We knew our catechism, and that was enough; we learned ou...r creed and our duty. Every respectable Church person had the same opinions. But, now if you speak out of the Prayer-book itself, you are liable to be contradicted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I was fair and young, and favor graced me, Of many was I sought, their mistress for to be;... But I did scorn them all, and answered them therefore, "Go, go, go seek some otherwhere! Importune me no more!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »