If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in any city ...more gloomy, more ugly, more grimy, more cruel than in London, I certainly don't care to see it. Sometimes it occurs to one that possibly all the failures of this generation, the world over, have been suddenly swept into London, for the streets are a restless, breathing, malodorous pageant of the seedy of all nations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of the family relation, should be one uniting all working people, of all nations, an...d tongues, and kindreds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... woman was made first for her own happiness, with the absolute right to herself ... we deny that dogma of the centuries, incorp...orated in the codes of all nations--that woman was made for man ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of all nations the English undoubtedly proved hitherto that they had the most business here. Yet I am not sure but I have most sym...pathy with that spirit of adventure which distinguished the French and Spaniards of those days, and made them especially the explorers of the American Continent,--which so early carried the former to the Great Lakes and the Mississippi on the north, and the latter to the same river in the south. It was long before our frontiers reached their settlements in the West. So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A true friend of man; almost the only friend of human progress.... With his hospitable intellect he embraces children, beggars, in...sane, and scholars, and entertains the thought of all, adding to it commonly some breadth and elegance. I think that he should keep a caravansary on the world's highway, where philosophers of all nations might put up, and on his sign should be printed, "Entertainment for man, but not for his beast. Enter ye that have leisure and a quiet mind, who earnestly seek the right road."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you would learn to speak all tongues and conform to the customs of all nations, if you would travel farther than all travellers..., be naturalized in all climes, and cause the Sphinx to dash her head against a stone, even obey the precept of the old philosopher, and Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve. Only the defeated and deserters go to the wars, cowards that run away and enlist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, an...d teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think a Person who is thus terrifyed [sic] with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contra...ry to the Reports of all Historians sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the Traditions of all Nations, thinks the Appearance of Spirits fabulous and groundless.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »