Pearls of Thought

e! Great is thy name in the rubric. Like unto thee, assuredly,

ed to by Shakespeare, that on this day birds begin to couple; hence, perhaps, arose the cust

t or strength to defend themselves. This makes the authority of men am

may be blessed, where piety

rom valor are superior to those which proceed fr

n at his best state is

e conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minuti? of men

hould be any such thing as human vanity. If I had any, I had enough t

y, meanness, and vanity than from the gr

ty, and the retired man at sixty. We are apt to think that best in

e of human th

her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets

uicksand of rea

lainly confess that these honors were more than their due and such as their friends would not believe if they had not been told. Whereas a man truly proud thinks the greatest ho

he smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small le

pposite biases) to keep up the balance of things. When we speak against one capital vice, we

l evil of vice; it d

t Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be ab

ces wanted less impudence to gainsay what the

causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by w

s us wiser than fifty

Then, on the other hand, we are amazed at the commencement of a sorrow-storm

to this man a foremost place, to the other a nameless struggle with the crowd; to that a shameful fall, or paralyze

y or Westminste

arms, but shameful to the coun

to the most pers

look upon victory than u

, never gives up, but boldly adds

be an overmatch for virtue, if

g good comes of

ven justice unj

out feeling is

en I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am boun

orch to his vices, and render those frailties notorious in him

wisdom. We are never deceive

ion of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to

rtue, who follow n

constitutes perfect virtue: these five are gravity, generos

o render vice lovable to thos

alue must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is n

by her own radiant light, though sun an

tary, vice invo

but proves at night

wish to be virtuous, and lo!

e concealed in the smooth season

o be ever guarded is scarce

a man extraordinary? Alexander is eminent for his courage; Ptolemy for his wisdom; Scipio

er, to which we cannot get but by

income, our vices consume

man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is f

ue and then wal

ledge, on the other hand, like a Swiss mercenary, is ready to combat either in the ranks of sin or under the banners of righteo

ed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarit

le talent and no cons

l. The hero will then know how to wait, as well as to make

es men sharper th

nown want if they had not f

ducation and habits, that our wan

ant of bread, I answer that it was in some plac

day of war, you would pray to Almighty God that

n trials of strength between friendly nations, and in which the injustice was not to each other, but to the God who gave them life.

e nothing but t

rning, and low enough at night! There is b

cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, a

is the best preve

d money, may justly be called t

can see the external of political society is in a hostile shape; and the only actions to which we have

n their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of militar

h various combinations, they attack each other and fight for a certain time; the critical mo

ures, and the was

as remedies equally ferocious, unjust, and inefficacious against evi

t Philistian gold: what murderer, what traitor, parricide, incestuous

rial; but there doth live a Power that to

ders have craved he

n vanquished.-M

ed, if the accession be sudden; he is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to sp

in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to tempt; lust of many harms

law of association often makes those who begin by loving gold as a servant, finish by becoming themselves

not cry, nobody knows! What poor, defensele

er-during gates, harmonious sound!

of the wicked passes awa

any just grounds on which it can rest; and the very consciousness of their own in

isery, of shame, accompanied with terror and commot

kedness, when down the hill he ho

f virtues; she's the moon, and thou

make a heavy hus

e, when he is weary with toil and jaded with discouragement, find upon his coming to his habitation that the foot which should hasten to meet him

n the happiness of

ng goes by desti

seemliest by her h

ed strength; and we must do the same, and not be like those poor wretches who, after one failure, suffer themselves to be swept along as by a tor

succeeds the barren winter with

ened bodies in a cold emb

ll be sure to leave a house some time before it fall; it is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger, w

on degree is what the wor

sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably, and well, in

ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowl

, and all that he knew was-t

r than they; and strength of mind is only c

but wisdom lin

to be wise; that is, seize wis

to immortal ver

e on an empty sto

ond thoughts are

ty between our wishes and our means, between our

pting wit, and failing, than in seeing a man trying

sweeting; it is a most

rs 'tis like plums stuck upon blackthorns; there the

s much frequently needs ten to keep in check his worldly wisdom, which mig

to place superfluity above u

life but teems with mo

s a woe, as wave

my voice, that my woe-wearied

w the bent of woman

ion are like flowers witho

the happiest nations, hav

an is a lady in right of

rences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct pre

she performs her part best who can take freely, of her own choice, the al

eir hearts; because the works of this ge

him, but because it pleases them to be loved by him. They love love of all things

his repose only, but his joy;

ther; and often we most admire her w

oman when I reflect that I am thus in no d

things; woman is the

,-old crotchets and most sweet closes,-it shall be humorous, grave, fanta

c and her voice

of divine contrad

or a Michael Angelo, or a great philosopher, or a great scholar. By which last is meant, not one who depends simply on an infinite memory, but also on an infinite and electrical power of combination; bringing together fro

trust: the wind, the sunshine of an April

pletely embittering the life of the

consequences in love, sel

, yet sufficiently transparent to let th

n, and there are male

a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation

earth; but women, worst and bes

untain of Youth, and that they remain young in the

of sunbeams; a shadow anni

eful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and late

heir husbands often look wit

d in mortal forms, they may be, without impiety, supposed to abide in such as hers. Cast in so slight and exquisite a mould, so

he beginning of all g

o be dreaded than a Jesuit, and

is guarded by keys and spies. No woman is

p swords; there are words, the point of which sting the

e-hands of the soul, more important tha

usband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would st

en whatever they do not

because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old

ge, and their currency should be strictly regul

those who think, a tragedy to

e world, the world

either breaks or hard

e oyster, which I with sw

sent. If my mind is not engaged in my worship

ch of the imagination, how much of the intellect, evaporates and is lost while w

r wrote, not what he

te yourself and say that the evil that is in you shall not spread. Men's lives are as thoroughly bl

report of wrong and outrage wit

ore their buttons be disclosed; and in the morn and liquid dew

h makes ruefu

certain complacent self-conceit, which principally shows itself

though not for tear

hy wings against the thorns o

y end, the heavens fall, yet loving voices would still

s of a blameless hear

e senses; the senses of age are reached

re the perquisites of

l for that which is good, though it may not be offensive to me, at all events r

soon forget the goal from

lity than to zeal. The winner is he who gives hi

acks devotion.

and all things to

ore noble, than the holy fe

mischief and violence, though it is not the cause,

is the statesmanship o

, a special reformer, we feel like asking him, What right hav

ey reason upon man as they would upon a divinity; they purs

thropy who was not wrong in his head

lves high-priests, and deem it holy work to offer

ld common arbitrator, Time, wi