Society and the World

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

As you cannot do what you want, want what you can do.

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still .entangled with the desire for ownership.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a friend of him.

It is well that the stately synagogue should lift its walls by the side of the aspiring cathedral, a perpetual reminder that there are many mansions in Father’s earthly house as well as in the heavenly ones.

Hogmanay, like all festivals, being but a bank from which we can only draw what we put in.

 

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

 

I rang them up while touring Timbucktoo, Those bosom chums to whom you’re known as “Who?”

 

Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

 

And o’er the hills and far away Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Through all the world she followed him.

 

Rabbit realized the world was not solid and benign, it was a shabby set of temporaryarrangements rigged up for the time being, all for the sake of the money. You just passedthrough, and they milked you for what youwere worth, mostly when you were young andgullible.

We said there warn’t no home like a raft, afterall. Other places do seem so cramped up andsmothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

They told him that their ancestors had fled the disorders of Ch’in times and, havingtaken refuge here with wives and childrenand neighbors, had never ventured out again; consequently they had lost all contact with the outside world.

On Christmas Day it is proclaimed that Christianity established peace on earth and good will towards men. Next day the Christian, with refreshed soul, goes back to the manufacture of submarines and torpedoes.

On Christmas Day it is proclaimed that Christianity established peace on earth and good will towards men. Next day the Christian, with refreshed soul, goes back to the manufacture of submarines and torpedoes.

Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life.