Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
reading healthy care
Nothing is so engaging as the little domestic cares into which you appear to be entering, and as to reading it is useful for onlyfilling up the chinks of more useful and healthy occupations.
truth thinking rights
With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.
country men france
While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.
science language instruments
I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.
friendship country effort
The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.
happiness degrees made
If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.
family happiness gratitude
You have never by a word or a deed given me one moment's uneasiness; on the contrary I have felt perpetual gratitude to heaven forhaving given me, in you, a source of so much pure and unmixed happiness.
happiness passion political
My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.
happiness heartfelt known
It is in the love of one's family only that heartfelt happiness is known.
happiness passion may
I see now our fireside formed into a groupe, no one member of which has a fibre in their composition which can ever produce any jarring or jealousies among us. No irregular passions, no dangerous bias, which may render problematical the future fortunes and happiness of our descendants.
wise wisdom children
I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.
music country passion
If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.
rights religion natural
[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.
religious hypocrite faith-religion
What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.