Joseph Wood
Joseph Wood
law fundamentals human-nature
It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.
new-year heart years
In our hearts those of us who know anything worth knowing know that in March a new year begins, and if we plan any new leaves, it will be when the rest of Nature is planning them too.
ethics bases customs
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
believe men tragedy
A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.
war men ill-will
Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.
men dangerous susceptible
There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.
nature men scarcity
An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.
waiting endless given
If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.
gratitude vices kind
Happiness is a kind of gratitude and vice versa.
past judging our-society
We must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it; the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.
appreciate mind firsts
The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
animal rocks community
And the thing which is missing is love, some feeling for, as well as some understanding of, the inclusive community of rocks and soils, plants and animals, of which we are a part.
men machines
As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
wish february used
February... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or - as the puritanical old saying used to have it - to kill time until it kills you.