Blame is safer than praise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and rootpuller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.
As men’s prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
In creeds never was such levity; witness the heathenisms in Christianity, the periodic “revivals,” the Millennium mathematics, the peacock ritualism, the retrogression to Popery, the maundering of Mormons, the squalor of Mesmerism, the deliration of rappings, the rat and mouse revelation, thumps in table-drawers, and black art.
A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.
Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, – now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a […]
We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
What a new face courage puts on everything!
