This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning displ...ay or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community--the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise... man, according to the Delphic Oracle. Whenever he tried to do anything in public he had to break off amid general laughter. While he was philosophizing about clouds and ideas, measuring a flea's foot and marveling at a midge's humming, he learned nothing about the affairs of ordinary life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Generosity is a part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this Government that I will never make an allegation of dis...honesty against it wherever a simple explanation of stupidity will suffice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So we must say Goodbye, my darling, And go, as lovers go, for ever;... Tonight remains, to pack and fix on labels And make an end of lying down together.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We believe that Carlyle has, after all, more readers, and is better known to-day for this very originality of style, and that post...erity will have reason to thank him for emancipating the language, in some measure, from the fetters which a merely conservative, aimless, and pedantic literary class had imposed upon it, and setting an example of greater freedom and naturalness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By hero, we tend to mean a heightened man who, more than other men, possesses qualities of courage, loyalty, resourcefulness, char...isma, above all, selflessness. He is an example of right behavior; the sort of man who risks his life to protect his society's values, sacrificing his personal needs for those of the community. Virgil's Aeneas is a hero in this sense of the word. He devotes his warrior skills, his pleasures, and finally his life to the historical destiny of founding Rome. Dante climbing to heaven in the Divine Comedy is a hero. Sergeant York risking his life to "end all wars" is a hero.... There is, of course, another sort of heightened man who bulks large in the popular imagination.... He is not "loyal," not a model of right behavior. Quite the contrary, he fascinates because he undermines the expected order. He possesses the qualities of the "hero": skill, resourcefulness, courage, intelligence. But he is the opposite of selfless. He is hungry; "heightened," not as an example, but as a presence, a phenomenon of sheer energy. One thinks of certain sports heroes, who boast and indulge their whims; who cannot be relied on, not because they are treacherous, but because the order of their needs is purely idiosyncratic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low an...d offensive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am convinced the most unfortunate people are those who would make an art of love. It sours other effort. Of all artists, they ar...e certainly the most wretched.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The language and traditions common to England and America are like other family bonds: they draw kindred together at the greater c...rises of life, but they also occasion at times a little friction and fault-finding. The groundwork of the two societies is so similar, that each nation, feeling almost at home with the other, and almost able to understand its speech, may instinctively resent what hinders it from feeling at home altogether. Dif ferences will tend to seem anomalies that have slipped in by mistake and through somebody's fault. Each will judge the other by his own standards, not feeling, as in the presence of complete foreigners, that he must make an effort of imagination and put himself in another man's shoes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »