Wisdom

How are we to face our queen, said the three mice, when by our folly we have lost the talisman and condemned our people to be utterly exterminated?

Whoso would deserve well of his fellows in this matter will guard the purity of his belief with a very fanaticism of jealous care, lest at any time it should rest on an unworthy object, and catch a stain which can never be wiped away.

It is true that this duty is a hard one, and the doubt which comes out of it is often a very bitter thing.

It leaves us bare and powerless where we thought that we were safe and strong.

To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.

It is the sense of power attached to a sense of knowledge that makes men desirous of believing, and afraid of doubting.

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

But if the belief has been accepted on insufficient evidence, the pleasure is a stolen one.

Every time we let ourselves believe for unworthy reasons, we weaken our powers of self-control, of doubting, of judicially and fairly weighing evidence.

In the world of values, Nature in itself is neutral, neither good nor bad, deserving of neither admiration nor censure.

I cannot, therefore, prove that my view of the good life is right; I can only state my view, and hope that as many as possible will agree.

Love is a word which covers a variety of feelings; I have used it purposely, as I wish to include them all.

Men have sacrificed their lives to helping lepers in such a case, the love they felt cannot have had any element of aesthetic delight.

The good life must be lived in a good society, and is not fully possible otherwise.

The Wolf began to run as fast as he could, taking the nearest way, and the little girl went by that farthest about, diverting herself in gathering nuts, running after butterflies, and making nosegays of such little flowers as she met with.

Pull the bobbin, and the latch will go up.

Grandmamma, what great ears you have got!

That is to hear the better, my child.

Grandmamma, what great teeth you have got!

Once upon a time, in a very far-off country, there lived a merchant who had been so fortunate in all his undertakings that he was enormously rich.