Consequences are unpitying.
It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer –committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.
Thus, by every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
She has taken a patronizing fancy to her father, the Admiral, who accepts her condescension gratefully as age brings more and more home to him the futility of his social position.
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
Best friends that pick wedgies together stay besties for life!
If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless.
