As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mo...
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.
In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, whic...
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Alles, was unserer körperlichen Ernährung und Pflege dient, lassen wir uns mehr kosten als unsere geistige Ernährung.
For the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have.
I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions, or set myself up as better than my neighbors. I seek rather, I may say, even an excuse for con...
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
There is one consolation in being sick and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
It is hard to forget that which it is worse than useless to remember.
If I knew ... that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good I should run for my life.
I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.
You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.
In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
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