Men, forever tempted to lift the veil of the future--with the aid of computers or horoscopes or the intestines of sacrificial anim...als--have a worse record to show in these "sciences" than in almost any scientific endeavor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What do you think of us in fuzzy endeavor, you whose directions are sterling, whose lunge is straight? Can you make a reason,... how can you pardon us who memorize the rules and never score?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Endeavor, as much as you can, to keep company with people above you.... Do not mistake, when I say company above you, and think th...at I mean with regard to their birth; that is the least consideration; but I mean with regard to their merit, and the light in which the world considers them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering his... fellows. All hope in the grand possibilities of life are blasted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[F]or women, like tradesmen, draw in the injudicious to buy their goods by the high value they themselves set upon them.... They e...ndeavor strongly to fix in the minds of their enamoratos their own high value, and then contrive as much as possible to make them believe that they have so many purchasers at hand that the goods--if they do not make haste--will all be gone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I endeavor not to conceal that I believe there is a great mixture of desire in the passion which is called love--or rather, withou...t any far-fetched strain on words, it may be called the companion of love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity.... But in order to try the truth of any ob...servation relating to the mind, the easiest method is to illustrate it by outward objects. If, for instance, a man was to sweat and labor all the days of his life to fill a chest which was already full, the absurdity of his vain endeavor would be glaring. In the same manner, when the human mind is filled and stuffed with notions brought thither by fallacious inclinations, there is no room for truth to enter: candor being banished, passions alone bear the sway.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the heroine of a romance was to traverse through countries where the castle of giants rise to her view, through gloomy forests ...amongst the dens of savage beasts [where] she is in danger of being torn and devoured [or] retarded in her flight by puzzling mazes, the reader's fears will be alarmed for her safety.... But the puzzling mazes into which we shall throw our heroine are the perverse interpretations made upon her words; the lions, tigers, and giants from which we endeavor to rescue her are the spiteful and malicious tongues of her enemies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are... reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »