To be in the right is often an expensive business.
It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
The way we do things is to begin.
If you have no family or friends to aid you. . . turn your face to the Great West and there build up your home and fortune.
Ease up, the play is over.
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
In actuality, no one ever sank so deep that he could not sink deeper, and there may be one or many who sank deeper. So it is always possible to be happy and grateful that things are not worse!
Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.
Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought.