Were anyone nowadays to venture to say, "Whoever is not for me is against me," he would immediately have everyone against him. MTh...is sentiment does credit to our times.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? my Mind is divided between the... two opposite Opinions; or rather (to speak my Thoughts freely) I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft; but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economical...ly; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candour of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the econo...my of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship, or the sale of goods through pretending that they sell, or power through making believe you are powerful, or through a packed jury or caucus, bribery and "repeating" votes, or wealth by fraud.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who sa...y that the well-educated alone are free.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Confronted with the unhappy facts of exclusion, we sometimes reassure ourselves by telling stories: the poor boys who made it, the... blacks who became a "credit to their race," the women elected to high office, the handicapped who made "useful contributions" to our society.... Just as we believe in the self-sufficient family, we also believe that any child with enough grit and ability can escape poverty and make a rewarding life. But these stories and beliefs clearly reflect the exceptions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no shame in man giving in to pain, but it is shameful for him to give in to pleasure. This is not because pain comes to u...s from outside, whilst we seek pleasure, for we may seek pain and deliberately give in to it without this sort of abasement. Why then is it to reason's credit to give in to the effect of pain, and to its shame to give into that of pleasure? It is because it is not pain that tempts and attracts us; it is we ourselves who voluntarily choose it and allow it to get the better of us, so that we are masters of the occasion, and in this it is man giving in to himself. But in pleasure it is man who gives in to pleasure. Now, glory comes only from mastery and control, shame only from subjection.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world, in credit, to his grave.... To Virtue only and her friends, a friend, The world beside may murmur, or commend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Is not the midnight like Central Africa to most of us? Are we not tempted to explore it,--to penetrate to the shores of its Lake T...chad, and discover the source of its Nile, perchance the Mountains of the Moon? Who knows what fertility and beauty, moral and natural, are to be found? In the Mountains of the Moon, in the Central Africa of the night, there is where all Niles have their hidden heads. The expeditions up the Nile as yet extend but to the Cataracts, or perchance to the mouth of the White Nile; but it is the black Nile that concerns us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »