He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
One who is riding should salute one who is walking, one who is walking should salute one who is sitting and a small company should salute a large one.
Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
We love the dumps and drops. They provide opportunities. If you are scared of them, it means you brought high with no plan. Cut that out