Our flag is our identity, and we can't disrespect or let anyone else disrespect our identity.
Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
Henry David Thoreau
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but a spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the play, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned.
Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
The stars are the apexes of what triangles!
There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose if a few went to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow-men. A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which also I have imagined, but not yet anywhere seen.
You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.
If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.
Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.
We feel at first as if some opportunities of kindness and sympathy were lost, but learn afterward that any pure grief is ample recompense for all. That is, if we are faithful; -- for a spent grief is but sympathy with the soul that disposes events, and is as natural as the resin of Arabian trees. -- Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
Samuel Butler
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.
The money men make lives after them.
The want of money is the root of all evil.
Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.
Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
For every why he had a wherefore.
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty in getting a hearing.
Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence.
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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