Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua goo...d, and they are good in themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well- informed mind, is to come with an inability of a...dministering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing any thing, should conceal it as well as she can.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While criticism or fear of punishment may restrain us from doing wrong, it does not make us wish to do right. Disregarding this si...mple fact is the great error into which parents and educators fall when they rely on these negative means of correction. The only effective discipline is self-discipline, motivated by the inner desire to act meritoriously in order to do well in one's own eyes, according to one's own values, so that one may feel good about oneself may "have a good conscience."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Parents ought, through their own behavior and the values by which they live, to provide direction for their children. But they nee...d to rid themselves of the idea that there are surefire methods which, when well applied, will produce certain predictable results. Whatever we do with and for our children ought to flow from our understanding of and our feelings for the particular situation and the relation we wish to exist between us and our child.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, u...nless their characters have been bad, and as I would wish to have the funeral of my own near relations or of myself well attended.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I heartily wish you, in the plain home-spun style, a great number of happy new years, well employed in forming both your mind and ...your manners, to be useful and agreeable to yourself, your country, and your friends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Inspector Clouseau: Do I detect something in your voice that says I am in disfavor with you? Chief Inspector Dreyfus: Yes. I ...wish you were dead. Inspector Clouseau: Well, of course, you are entitled to your opinion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm, and in t...he miscellany of metropolitan life, and that these few are alone to be regarded,--the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love what is simple and beautiful; independence and cheerful relation, these are the essentials,--these, and the wish to serve,--to add somewhat to the well-being of men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults over ...the moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »