Like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examinatio...n.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a normal person the motor and sensory nervous systems act as the windows of the individual personality.... [ellipsis in origina...l] The broken, many-stained and pictorial windows through which the light is struggling under disadvantages to harmonize itself with the physical world at large are found in three classes of persons--the mentally deficient, the morally deficient, and the insane. In these, the light is there, but the images, as in a broken cathedral window, are more or less shattered and confused.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... this I conceive to be no time to prate of moral influences. Our men's nerves require their accustomed narcotics and a glass of... whiskey is a powerful friend in a sunstroke, and these poor fellows fall senseless on their heavy drills.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to lo...ok for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far... more fundamentally upon the moral and intellectual qualities of human beings--upon the spirit that animates mankind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All those who write either explicitly or by insinuation against the dignity, freedom, and immortality of the human soul, may so fa...r forth be justly said to unhinge the principles of morality, and destroy the means of making men reasonably virtuous.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man needs no arguments to make him discern and approve what is beautiful: it strikes at first sight, and attracts without a reas...on. And as this beauty is found in the shape and form of corporeal things, so also is there analogous to it a beauty of another kind, an order, a symmetry, and comeliness in the moral world. And as the eye perceiveth the one, so the mind doth by a certain interior sense perceive the other, which sense, talent, or faculty, is ever quickest and purest in the noblest minds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the structure of our public morality crashed to earth. Above its grave a tombstone read, "Be tolerant--even of evil." Logicall...y the next step would be to say to our commonwealth's criminals, "I disagree that it's all right to rob and murder, but naturally I respect your opinion." Tolerance is only complacence when it makes no distinction between right and wrong.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »