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Oh, God! that bread should be so dear,
And flesh and blood so cheap!
Oh, God! that bread should be so dear,
And flesh and blood so cheap!
It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off read more
It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels.
Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Gene!:5].
Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Gene!:5].
I am mortal. I am born to love and to suffer.
I am mortal. I am born to love and to suffer.
An inadvertent step may crush the snail
That crawls at evening in the public path.
But he read more
An inadvertent step may crush the snail
That crawls at evening in the public path.
But he that has humanity, forewarned,
Will turn aside and let the reptile live.
If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: "It seemed a read more
If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time.".
Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all o its meaninglessness.
The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all o its meaninglessness.
Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, read more
Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.