The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue.... Moreover this activity ...must occupy a complete lifetime; for one swallow does not make spring, nor does one fine day; and similarly one day or a brief period of happiness does not make a man supremely blessed and happy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"What tumbling cloud did you cleave, Yellow-eyed hawk of the mind,... Last evening? that I, who had sat Dumbfounded before a knave, Should give to my friend A pretence of wit."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature; and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, ...and, like the grave, cries, "Give, give!" The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government. You tell me of degrees of perfection to which human nature is capable of arriving, and I believe it, but at the same time lament that our admiration should arise from the scarcity of the instances.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and hap...py.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So a swallow perpetuated In dove-gray dusk can be both the end and the exaltation of a new... Beginning, yet forever remain itself....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precook...ed out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »