It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.
I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.
How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.
He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.
Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to be formed, and formed by each individual in the sacred and free citadel of the mind, and there enshrined beyond the arm of law to reach, or force to shake; ay! and beyond the right of impertinent curiosity to violate, or presumptuous arrogance to threaten.
Credulity is always ridiculous.
I have no worries myself, nor do I exude or possess within my living stratus any reason why someone should worry [on] my behalf.
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
Being poor is like being a child. Being rich is like being an adult: you get to do whatever you want. Everyone is nice when they have to be; rich people are nice when they feel like it.
Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.