Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
intelligence morality ethics
State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.
ocean air common
The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.
pain emotional criticism
I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
beer wish citizens
I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.
war people energy
They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.
war people safe
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.
dream attitude ambition
Wake up, dream, have the ambition to do the things you have always dreamed of, go farther than any man has ever been before, go as far as it is possible for any man to go, what have you got to lose? Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
sports victory-and-defeat victory-defeat
Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
educational government self
the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.
educational virginia people
The Petition of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Chapman Johnson, Joseph C. Cabell, James Breckenridge, John Hartwell Cocke, and Robert Taylor the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia ... Respectfully representeth ... That the value of science to a republican people, the security it...
educational people enough
what is wanting to restore us to our station among our confederates? not more money from the people. enough has been raised by them, and appropriated to this very object. it is that it should be employed understandingly, and for their greatest good. that good requires that, while they are...
educational father reading
among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ... I think myself more indebted to my father for this, than for all the other luxuries his cares and affections have placed within my reach.
daughter mother educational
female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them a solid education which might enable them, when become mothers, to educate their own daughters, and even to direct the course for sons, should their fathers be...
mother educational drawing
Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother & an instructor.