The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.