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Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.
Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, "whatever it takes!".
I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, "whatever it takes!".
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.
Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.
The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may read more
The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, read more
An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.