The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends"
How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!
You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.
Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship
There is always a but in this imperfect world.
Our children, Edward, Agnes, and little Mary, promise well; their education, for the time being, is chiefly committed to me; and they shall want no good thing that a mother's care can give. Our modest income is amply sufficient for our requirements; and by practising the economy we learnt in harder times, and never attempting to imitate our richer neighbours, we manage not only to enjoy comfort and contentment ourselves, but to have every year something to lay by for our children, and something to give to those who need it. And now I think I have said sufficient.
No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.
I don't think about other people. They are not walking in my shoes. They are not paying my bills. What makes me happy is when I do what I like to do, for me.
Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.
Let the flesh instruct the mind.
A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped famous footballers. This is an example of our topsy-turvy view of 'success. ' Who would we miss most if they did not work for a month, the footballer or the garbage collector?