Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is? Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever by walking to the bank at Greenwich to get the money to which my father's letter of credit entitled me. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France, whose name was a common one, John Smith, took particular charge of me, removed me to Morristown, N. J., and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies who kept a boarding - house. To their skilful and untiring ministrations I may safely say I owe the prolongation of my life. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. Nov 26, 2024 - Fabian Biese>