When he became all eye when one was present, and all memory when one was gone; when the youth becomes the watcher of windows, and ...studious of a glove, a veil, a ribbon, or the wheels of a carriage, when no place is too solitary, and none too silent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"New order of the ages" did we say? If it looks none too orderly today,... 'Tis a confusion it was ours to start So in it have to take courageous part.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt... you, But make allowance for their doubting you; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:... If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings--nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anyt...hing else available. Western civilization not only provides a bit of life, a pinch of liberty and the occasional pursuance of happiness, it's also the only thing that's ever tried to. Our civilization is the first in history to show even the slightest concern for average, undistinguished, none-too-commendable people like us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For this world we live in None of us is sly enough.... Never do we notice All is lie and bluff. Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Do not treat me in this fashion. Don't leave me out. Have I not Always spoken the truth in my books? And now You treat me like a liar! I order you: Burn me! Those who lead the country into the abyss Call ruling too difficult For ordinary men. Ah, what an age it is When to speak of trees is almost a crime For it is a kind of silence about injustice!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the sc...reen and in real life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of s...imple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and he that will... Reach her, about must, and about must go; And what the hill's suddenness resists, win so; Yet strive so, that before age, death's twilight, Thy Soul rest, for none can work in that night. To will, implies delay, therefore now do: Hard deeds, the body's pains; hard knowledge too The mind's endeavours reach, and mysteries Are like the Sun, dazzling, yet plain to all eyes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity,... With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »