Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
Daniel Webster
A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.
I see nothing in it new and valuable. What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.
The past is at least secure.
There is always room at the top.
Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.
One country, one constitution, one destiny.
Wisdom begins at the end.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
This is a Senate of equals, of men of individual honor and personal character, and of absolute independence. We know no masters, we acknowledge no dictators. This is a hall for mutual consultation and discussion; not an arena for the exhibition of champions.
He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva, from the brain of Jove, was hardly more sudden or more perfect than the financial system of the United States, as it burst forth from the conceptions of Alexander Hamilton.
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
Other misfortunes may be borne, or their effects overcome. If disastrous war should sweep our commerce from the ocean, another generation may renew it; if it exhaust our treasury, future industry may replenish it; It were but a trifle even if the walls of yonder Capitol were to crumble, if its lofty pillars should fall, and its gorgeous decorations be all covered by the dust of the valley. All these might be rebuilt. But who shall reconstruct the fabric of demolished government? Who shall rear again the well-proportioned columns of constitutional liberty? No, if these columns fall, they will be raised not again. they will be the remnants of a more glorious edifice than Greece or Rome ever saw, the edifice of constitutional American liberty.
The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
Credit is the vital air of the system of modern commerce. It has done more, a thousand times, to enrich nations, than all the mines of all the world. It has excited labor, stimulated manufactures, pushed commerce over every sea, and brought every nation, every kingdom, and every small tribe, among the races of men, to be known to all the rest. It has raised armies, equipped navies, and, triumphing over the gross power of mere numbers, it has established national superiority on the foundation of intelligence, wealth, and well-directed industry. Credit is to money what money is to articles of merchandise. As hard money represents property, so credit represents hard money; and it is capable of supplying the place of money so completely, that there are writers of distinction, especially of the Scotch school, who insist that no hard money is necessary for the interests of commerce. I am not of that opinion. I do not think any government can maintain an exclusive paper system, without running to excess, and thereby causing depreciation.
Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.
John Dos Passos, The Prospect Be
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
Horace Greeley
By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.
William Osler
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I dont know and I dont care.
Richard Pratt
Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.
George Carlin
Life begins on the other side of despair.La vie commence lautre cot du desespoir
JeanPaul Sartre
Learning and sex until rigor mortis.
Maggie Kuhn
Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let things take their course without troubling over details. Such indifference is the root of all evil.
I Ching
Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.
Crystal Eastman, "Time and Tide"
Indifference creates an artificial peace.
Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Ni
Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.
Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Se
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.
George Washington Carver
The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper.
Thomas Powers
To produce things and to rear them,To produce, but not to take possession of them,To act, but not to rely on one's own ability,To lead them, but not to master them -This is called profound and secret virtue.
LaoTzu, The Way of Laotzu
To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty.
Anon.
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. Tolkien
In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.with Michael Kube-McDowell
Arthur C. Clarke, The Trigger
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren
To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is something I want to say to you alone. Come; this is a private matter between us two - anything you tell me shall be as secret as the grave.
Euripides, Ion
The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
Elbert Hubbard
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Ray Bradbury, "Reader's Digest",
Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.
Robert Bolt, A Man For All Seaso
An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
Augustine Birrell
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