Our choices at all levels-individual, community, corporate and government-affect nature. And they affect us.
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason. . . affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
In my 30s I used to go to the gym even though I hated it. The purpose of going to the gym was to postpone the day when I would stop going. That's what writing is to me: a way of postponing the day when I won't do it any more, the day when I will sink into a depression so profound it will be indistinguishable from perfect bliss.
The writers could always do an about-face and change everything
Marshall Jevons is the pioneer for integrating economics and detective fiction, and The Mystery of the Invisible Hand is another fine effort in this genre.
IT was the time of day when Lake Eden residents decided it was too late for a breakfast cookie and too early for a lunch cookie.