The reproach of a father is agreeable medicine, for it contains more that is useful than it contains of that which gives pain. Fragment
The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition! Moby Dick
Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all. East Of Eden
But still anger ought be far from us, for nothing is able to be done rightly nor judiciously with anger. On Duties
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