If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Charles de Secondat
Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two.
Ellery Sedgwick
Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school.
Henry Sedgwick
I have a rendezvous with Death at some disputed barricade.
Alan Seeger
I have a rendezvous with DeathAt some disputed barricade,When Spring comes back with rustling shadeAnd apple-blossoms fill the airI have a rendezvous with DeathWhen Spring brings back blue days and fair. It may be he shall take my handAnd lead me into his dark landAnd close my eyes and quench my breathIt may be I shall pass him still. I have a rendezvous with DeathOn some scarred slope of battered hill,When Spring comes round again this yearAnd the first meadow-flowers appear. God knows twere better to be deepPillowed in silk and scented down,Where Love throbs out in blissful sleep,Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,Where hushed awakenings are dear But I've a rendezvous with DeathAt midnight in some flaming town,When Spring trips north again this year,And I to my pledged word am true,I shall not fail that rendezvous.
We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
Sir John Robert Seeley
No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
Giorgos Seferis
Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.
Ronald Segal
The far right seeks to retain the material progress of American capitalism while removing some of its crucial causes and consequences -- as though a bridge could be made to change part of its function by blowing up part of its supports and part of its exit.
When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.
Bob Seger
An hour of practice is worth five hours of foot-dragging.
Pancho Segura
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.
John Selden
It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.
Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.
The world cannot be governed without juggling.
They that govern the most make the least noise.
He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.
Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.
To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.
In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.
'Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
William Blake
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud.
Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.
Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.
One thought fills immensity.
The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.
For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.
Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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