Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself g...et good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play is ...on the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are two kinds of timidity--timidity of mind, and timidity of the nerves; physical timidity, and moral timidity. Each is inde...pendent of the other. The body may be frightened and quake while the mind remains calm and bold, and vice versë. This is the key to many eccentricities of conduct. When both kinds meet in the same man he will be good for nothing all his life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Throughout the 1980's, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough a...bout how to be a good member of a community, to define the common good and to repair the social contract. And we also found that while prosperity does not trickle down from the most powerful to the rest of us, all too often indifference and even intolerance do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You will not find science annihilating personality from the government of the Universe and making of God as ungovernable, unintell...igible, blind, often destructive physical force; you will not find jurisprudence formulating as an axiom the absurdity that man and wife are one, and that one the man--that the married woman may not hold or bequeath her own property save as subject to her husband's direction; you will not find political economists declaring that the only possible adjustment between laborers and capitalists is that of selfishness and rapacity--that each must get all he can and keep all that he gets, while the world cries laissez faire and the lawyers explain, "it is the beautiful working of the law of supply and demand;" in fine, you will not find the law of love shut out from the affairs of men after the feminine half of the world's truth is completed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Grandmother, born in County Tyrone, believed as a good Irishwoman that there were only three kinds of tea fit to drink, none of th...em storebought. The first quality was kept, sensibly enough, in China. The second picking was sent directly to Ireland. The third and lowest grade went, of course, to the benighted British. And all the tea used in our house came once a year, in one or two beautiful soldered tin boxes, from Dublin. Then only would we know it to be second to what the Dowager Empress of China was drinking, while the other Old Lady in Buckingham Palace sipped our dregs, as served her right. ...My grandmother died before tea bags. I am grateful. My mother never admitted their existence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twent...ies as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome . . . shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your children get a lot of good stuff out of your work...They benefit from the tales you tell over dinner. They learn from the thi...ngs you explain to them about what you do. They brag about you at school. They learn that work is interesting, that it has dignity, that it is necessary and pleasing, and that it is a perfectly natural thing for both mothers and fathers to do...Your work enriches your children more than it deprives them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »