The Utopians wonder that any man should be so enamoured of the lustre of a jewel, when he can behold a star or the sun.
Isn’t this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?
Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
It’s wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else’s enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.
If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little, even at the risk of being heroes.
Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming first a thief and then a corpse.
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.