Grief falls upon human beings as the rain, not selecting good or evil, visiting the innocent, condemning those who have done no wrong.
Richard Jefferies
Almost every labourer has his Sunday suit, very often really good clothes, sometimes glossy black, with the regulation 'chimney pot'. His... →
Some, I verily believe, delight to be slave-men; it is a joy to them, and they would not change their condition; not only miserable village wretches... →
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good... →
Thomas Jefferson
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the... →
The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them... →