It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.
The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.
The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth century. Its drag as to time of official proclamation is a drag as to social vision. And even if equal rights were now written into the law of our land, it would be so inadequate today as a means to food, clothing and shelter for woman at large that what they would still be enjoying would be equality in disaster rather than in realistic privilege.
Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.
Comfort, however, easily merges into license.
For hundreds of years the use of the word 'man' has troubled critical scholars, careful translators, and lawyers. Difficulties occur whenever and wherever it is important for truth-seeking purposes to know what is being talked about and the context gives no intimation whether 'man' means just a human being irrespective of sex or means a masculine being and none other.
History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies.
Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.
Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.
If there is one thing to get excited about, it's your ability to turn the negative into success.
Despite popular theories, I believe people fall in love based not on good looks or fate but on knowledge. Either they are amazed by something a beloved knows that they themselves do not know; or they discover a common rare knowledge; or they can supply knowledge to someone who's lacking. Hasn't everyone found a strange ignorance in someone beguiling?. . . Nowadays, trendy librarians, wanting to be important, say, Knowledge is power. I know better. Knowledge is love.