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Merry and tragical! tedious and brief!
That is, hot ice and wondrous strange snow.
How shall we find the concord of this discord?
To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days; the more the pity that some honest neighbors will not make them friends.
Sometime a horse I’ll be, sometime a hound,
A hog, a headless bear, sometime a fire;
And neigh, and bark, and grunt, and roar, and burn,
Like horse, hound, hog, bear, fire, at every turn.
When it’s easier to do evil, but you choose to do good, you are a true hero.
Nature has not said to me, “Be not poor,” still less, “Be rich.” She calls out to me, “Be independent!”
Pleasure can be supported by illusion, while happiness rests upon truth.
Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians — the inability to pronounce the word “No.” To be able to speak that word and to live alone, are the only two means to preserve one’s freedom and one’s character.
You will be of as much worth to others as you are to yourself.
Nothing is more delightful than the light of truth.
Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
All powerful souls have kindred with each other.
That light we see is burning in my hall.
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
As thou urgest justice, be assured
Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desiresth.
Thou makest thy knife keen; but no metal can,
No, not the hangman’s axe, bear half the keenness
Of thy sharp envy. Can no prayers pierce thee?
There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent.
I wish to be a true and free man.
How shalt thou hope for mercy, rendering none?
So may the outward shows be least themselves:
The world is still deceived with ornament.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,
But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,
Obscures the show of evil?
To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.
Let none presume
To wear an undeserved dignity.
O, that estates, degrees, and offices
Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour
Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!
