Let us try what love will do.
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
Friends are true Twins in Soul; they Sympathize in every thing, and have the Love and Aversion. One is not happy without the other, nor can either of them be miserable alone. As if they could change Bodies, they take their turns in Pain as well as in Pleasure; relieving one another in their most adverse Conditions.What one enjoys, the other cannot Want. Like the Primitive Christians, they have all things in common, and no Property but in one another.
A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
As Love ought to bring them together, so it is the best Way to keep them well together.
Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.
Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.
We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.
Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
The soul’s emphasis is always right.
Everything intercepts us from ourselves.
Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans –which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.
The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
