Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by e...ducation; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that..., little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... any men who would give up the law-making power to women in order to remedy existing evils, would surely be those most ready to... enact the needful laws themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistak...e, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unali...enable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then most thriving when left most fre...e to individual enterprise. Protection from casual embarrassments, however, may sometimes be seasonably interposed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The calm, the coolness, the silent grass-growing mood in which a man ought always to compose,--that, I fear, can seldom be mine. D...ollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. My dear Sir, a presentiment is on me,--I shall at last be worn out and perish, like an old nutmeg-grater, grated to pieces by the constant attrition of the wood, that is, the nutmeg. What I feel most moved to write, that is banned,--it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, and all my books are botches.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[holds her by the hand, silent] O mother, mother! What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope,... The gods look down, and this unnatural scene They laugh at. O my mother, mother! O! You have won a happy victory to Rome; But, for your son, believe it--O, believe it-- Most dangerously you have with him prevailed, If not most mortal to him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »