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A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance. - [Juries] A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind. - [Discipline] And when she spake, Sweete words, like dropping honey, she did shed; And 'twixt the perles and rubies softly brake A silver sound, that heavenly musicke seem'd to make. - [Eloquence] Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world. - [Children] Education has for its object the formation of character. - [Education] Every cause produces more than one effect. - [Cause] Her words were like a stream of honey fleeting, The which doth softly trickle from the hive, Able to melt the hearer's heart unweeting, And eke to make the dead again alive. - [Eloquence] Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom. - [Heroes] It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her elevation towards an equality with man uniformly accompanies progress. - [Equality] Liberty is not the right of one, but of all. - [Liberty] Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings; from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine. - [Mothers] Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress. - [Adversity] Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman. - [Children] No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy. - [Perfection] Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. - [Rebellion] Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect. - [Opinion] Or it needs only to look back over past centuries and the iniquities alike of populace, nobles, kings, and popes to perceive an almost incomprehensible futility of the beliefs everywhere held and perpetually insisted upon. - [Belief] Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance. - [Ignorance] Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man, therefore, be a Phocion or Pythagorean, to speak briefly to the point or not at all; let him labor like them of Crete, to show more wit in his discourse than words, and not to pour out of his mouth a flood of the one, when he can hardly wring out of his brains a drop of the other. - [Loquacity] The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship. - [Behavior] The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination. - [Mothers] The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong. - [Majority] The morrow, fair with purple beams, dispersed the shadows of the misty night. - [Morning] There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased; till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive. - [Generosity] Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious. - [Piety] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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