The second day of July 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celeb...rated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever moreLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So of the three methods: reason, sense, or a knowing combination of both, the last seems the least like a winner, the second probl...ematic; only the first has some slim chance of succeeding through sheer perversity, which is possibly the only way to succeed at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their "femininity". Yet the qualities that men consider "f...eminine"Mtimidity, submissiveness, obedience, silliness, and self-debasement--are the very qualities best guaranteed to assure the defeat of even the most gifted aspirant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding,... the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We ought to be cautious in taking even the best ascertained opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our own. If it coul...d be satisfactorily shown that they esteemed it authorized and transmitted forever, that does not settle the question for us. We know how inveterately they were attached to their Jewish prejudices, and how often even the influence of Christ failed to enlarge their views. On every other subject succeeding times have learned to form a judgement more in accordance with the spirit of Christianity than was the practice of the early ages.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tri...bes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes... that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In families children tend to take on stock roles, as if there were hats hung up in some secret place, visible only to the children.... Each succeeding child selects a hat and takes on that role: the good child, the black sheep, the clown, and so forth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »