There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.
The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
Joseph Addison
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us.
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.
Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world.
Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
Gloria Steinem
When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.
Jake Steinfeld
Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.
Jim Steinman
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
Charles Steinmetz
The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one.
Wilhelm Stekel
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
Henri B. Stendhal
Being contented ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
G. K. Chesterton
With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Lydia Maria Child
Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
Home -- that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, duties, and pursuits of men and women. Women will not become less gentle and graceful, but men will become more so. Women will not neglect the care and education of their children, but men will find themselves ennobled and refined by sharing those duties with them; and will receive, in return, co-operation and sympathy in the discharge of various other duties, now deemed inappropriate to women. The more women become rational companions, partners in business and in thought, as well as in affection and amusement, the more highly will men appreciate home.
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