Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but trivial exerc...ises of the imagination. I suggest there is a simple test we can apply.... We must forget the whole paraphernalia of social description, demonstration, expostulation, approbation, condemnation. We have to say to ourselves, "How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love was as subtly catched, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet,... Which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be prophaned on either part, For though 'tis got by chance, 'tis kept by art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God, for wise reasons, has made our affairs in this world, almost as fickle and capricious as ourselves.--Pain and pleasure, like ...light and darkness, succeed each other; and he that knows how to accommodate himself to their periodical returns, and can wisely extract the good from the evil,--knows only how to live.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »