Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like... dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... no one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven to achieve ...anything.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Rutherford B. Hayes] was a patriotic citizen, a lover of the flag and of our free institutions, an industrious and conscientious ...civil officer, a soldier of dauntless courage, a loyal comrade and friend, a sympathetic and helpful neighbor, and the honored head of a happy Christian home. He has steadily grown in the public esteem, and the impartial historian will not fail to recognize the conscientiousness, the manliness, and the courage that so strongly characterized his whole public career.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The plant is not a mere product of the soil, but a living process centred in itself, the essence of which has nothing to do with t...he character of the soil. In the same way the art-work must be regarded as a creative formation, freely making use of every precondition. Its meaning and its own individual particularity rests in itself, and not in its preconditions. In fact one might also describe it as a being that uses man and his personal dispositions merely as a cultural medium or soil, disposing his powers according to his own laws, while shaping itself to the fulfillment of its own creative purpose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where wit is a form of criticism or mockery, humor includes an element of self-criticism or self-mockery; where wit tends to procl...aim imperfection, humor wryly acknowledges it; where wit undresses you, humor goes naked. At its best, humor simultaneously hurts and heals, makes one larger from a willingness to make oneself less. It has essentially much more breadth than wit, from being much more universal in appeal and human in effect. If harder to translate or explain, it often need not be explained or translated at all, revealing itself in a sudden gesture, a happy juxtaposition. We speak constantly of "the humor of the situation," almost never of the wit; just so, virtually everything that is farcical or funny derives from humor gone a bit wild.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little m...ore to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy en...ding in American civics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing ca...use with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »