
Section I, p. 5–6
Natural Law; or The Science of Justice (1882), Chapter I. The Science of Justice.
"Blind Man's Holiday"
Whirligigs (1910)
Context: Man is too thoroughly an egoist not to be also an egotist; if he love, the object shall know it. During a lifetime he may conceal it through stress of expediency and honour, but it shall bubble from his dying lips, though it disrupt a neighbourhood. It is known, however, that most men do not wait so long to disclose their passion. In the case of Lorison, his particular ethics positively forbade him to declare his sentiments, but he must needs dally with the subject, and woo by innuendo at least.
Section I, p. 5–6
Natural Law; or The Science of Justice (1882), Chapter I. The Science of Justice.
X, 36
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
Context: There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen. Suppose that he was a good and a wise man, will there not be at least some one to say to himself, Let us at last breathe freely, being relieved from this schoolmaster? It is true that he was harsh to none of us, but I perceive that he tacitly condemns us.—This is what is said of a good man. But in our own case how many other things are there for which there are many who wish to get rid of us.
Source: Hilkhot De'ot (Laws Concerning Character Traits), Chapter 2, Section 7, p. 33
The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 36
Source: The New Ethics (1907), The Perils of Over-population, pp. 149–150
“Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.”
Part I, ch 9.
Proverbs (1546)
From the Preface to the 1855 edition of <i>Leaves of Grass</i>