He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely.
what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.
Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even.
That is the stimulus of nature; it is never, never old, and always developing. Even the scarred, wrinkled earth herself is a mere infant among the old ladies and gentlemen that tread foot-paths in the sky.
Nature, when undisturbed, is never monotonous, you know. Even when using green, the most frequent color on her palette, she throws in contrasting tints by way of expression, and you will seldom see two sides of a leaf of the same hue, and the leaf stem frequently gives a good dash of bronze or purple.
Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?
it is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background.
The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.
Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits of the stars and even their sizes and distances. . . and this knowledge he holds with certainty from reason and experience. It is thus offensive and disgraceful for an unbeliever to hear a Christian talk nonsense about such things, claiming that what he is saying is based in Scripture. We should do all that we can to avoid such an embarrassing situation, which people see as ignorance in the Christian and laugh to scorn.
The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect.
Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.