In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. Moby Dick
But of all motives, none is better adapted to secure influence and hold it fast than love; nothing is more foreign to that end than fear. On Duties
From Apollonius, true liberty, and unvariable steadfastness, and not to regard anything at all, though never so little, but right and reason: and always..that it was possible for the same man to be both vehement and remiss: a man not subject to be vexed, and offended with the incapacity of his scholars and auditors in his lectures and expositions. Book I
There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one. The Post Office Girl
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