Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still..., while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the philosophy, therefore, in the world, and all the religion, which is nothing but a species of philosophy, will never be abl...e to carry us beyond the usual course of experience, or give us measures of conduct and behaviour different from those which are furnished by reflections on common life. No new fact can ever be inferred from the religious hypothesis; no event foreseen or foretold; no reward or punishment expected or dreaded, beyond what is already known by practice and observation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertai...nty and endless contrarieties, even in subjects of common life and practice.... When these topics are displayed in their full light, as they are by some philosophers and almost all divines; who can retain such confidence in this frail faculty of reason as to pay any regard to its determinations in points so sublime, so abstruse, so remote from common life and experience?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credu...lous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of demo...cratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a fit system for the mid- twentieth century.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Such is the caprice of Romans ... who reject kings in name but not in practice, and accept an Emperor mightier than a hundred king...s.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The tension to mother the "right" way can leave a peculiar silence within mother daughter relationships--the silence of a mother's... own truth and experience. Within this silence, a daughter's authentic voice can also fall silent. This is the silence of perfection. This silence of perfection prevents mothers from listening and learning from their daughters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I became President I was fully convinced that whatever might be true in Europe and of Europeans, in our climate and with the ...excitable temperaments of the Americans, the habitual use of intoxicating drinks was not safe. I regarded the danger of the habit as especially great in political and official life. It seemed to me that the example of excluding liquors from the White House would be wise and useful, and would be approved by good people generally.... I was not a total abstainer when I became President.... During the greater part of my term and at least for the last three years, I have been in practice and in theory a consistent total-abstinence man, and I shall continue to be so.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Consciousness never deceives.... We learn the influence of our will from experience alone. And experience only teaches us, how one... event constantly follows another; without instructing us in the secret connexion, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Being satisfied, from observation and experience, as well as from medical testimony, that ardent spirit as a drink is not only nee...dless but hurtful; and that the entire disuse of it would tend to promote the health, the virtue, and the happiness of the community, we hereby express our convention that should the citizens of the United States, and especially ALL YOUNG MEN, discontinue entirely the use of it, they would not only promote their own personal benefit, but the good of our country and the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »