Live joyfully, without desire.
What a rude Lump our World is that we are so apt to dote upon.
It serves no purpose to man if there is no room for repentance, and he who is tormented can never grow better. . . let this punishment be severe, let it be bitter, nay let it be lasting, but let it at length have an end.
. . . tis a dangerous thing to ingage the authority of Scripture in disputes about the Natural World, in opposition to Reason; lest Time, which brings all things to light, should discover that to be evidently false which we had made Scripture to assert.
If most of the breaks go to wealthy people it's because most of the people who pay taxes are wealthy.
I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.
You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it.
A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.