The breeding programs for the bulls have improved significantly. The bulls are at a much higher caliber.
Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.
Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, though in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the voice of an undying testimony.
The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain.
In the wildest anarchy of man's insurgent appetites and sins there is still a reclaiming voice,--a voice which, even when in practice disregarded, it is impossible not to own; and to which, at the very moment that we refuse our obedience, we find that we cannot refuse the homage of what ourselves do feel and acknowledge to be the best, the highest principles of our nature.
It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Infidelity is one of those coinages,-a mass of base money that won't pass current with any heart that loves truly, or any head that thinks correctly. And infidels are poor sad creatures; they carry about them a load of dejection and desolation, not the less heavy that it is invisible. It is the fearful blindness of the soul.
I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.
I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is.
Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives.
The unique thing that literature provides is to be able to step so fully into another situation and condition.