Will Christian
Will Christian
weapons causes logic
Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.
love eye heart
None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances.
love littles reason
We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other.
love rich week
Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.
success mind gimlets
Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.
money men long
Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of the chief virtues; but to continue in trade long after this result is obtained, is one of the signs, not to be mistaken, of a sordid and ignoble nature.
money appreciate ability
One must have been, at some time or other, in a situation where a small sum was as necessary almost as life itself, with no more ability to raise it than to raise the dead, before he can fully appreciate the value of money.
age demand revision
Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.
party passion class
Our opinions partake, more or less, of the prejudices of our class, party, or sect. We are all largely pledged, through interest, affection, or passion, to particular classes of opinion, and the strength of efforts to get released from these pledges, is the measure of our advancement.
war essence citizens
Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes. It may save the state, but it destroys the citizen.
strong party yield
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.
tears departure noise
The activity of the young is like that of railcars in motion--they tear along with noise and turmoil, and leave peace behind them. The quietest nooks, invaded by them, lose their quietude as they pass, and recover it only on their departure.
gay rose feelings
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
home dominion vain
It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.