If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.
Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.
If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.
I actually believe that a lot of what people call originality has to do with persistence in the craft.
[W]omen under phallocratic rule are confined to the role of vesselscarriers, directed and controlled by men. Since that role is the basic base reversal of the very be-ing of VoyagingSpiraling women, when we direct our own CraftsVessels we become reversers of that deadly reversal.
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
When you have made good friends with yourself, your situation will be more friendly too.