O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
Category Archive: 1809
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don’t knock your friends. Don’t knock your enemies. Don’t knock yourself.
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother’s shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.