Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871), Ch. XIX : Grand Pontiff, p. 315
To the Memory of Some I knew Who are Dead and Who Loved Ireland (1917)
"True Grandeur of Nations," oration before the authorities of the City of Boston (July 4, 1845)
Zeno, 53.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 7: The Stoics
“Every age has its happiness and troubles.”
Source: Jeanne Calment: From Van Gogh's Time to Ours : 122 Extraordinary Years, 1998, p. 48: response to the question whether the birth of her daughter was the happiest time of her life
"The Painted Skin" from Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (1740), as translated by John Minford in Strange tales from a Chinese studio (2006), p. 521
Speech to the National Association of Evangelicals (8 March 1983)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
Source: The Age of Revolution (1962), Chapter 13, Ideology: Secular
The Toynbee-Ikeda Dialogue: Man Himself Must Choose (1976).
Emotional Architecture as Compared to Intellectual (1894)
Context: The human mind in all countries having gone to the uttermost limit of its own capacity, flushed with its conquests, haughty after its self-assertion upon emerging from the prior dark age, is now nearing a new phase, a phase inherent in the nature and destiny of things.
The human mind, like the silk-worm oppressed with the fullness of its own accumulation, has spun about itself gradually and slowly a cocoon that at last has shut out the light of the world from which it drew the substance of its thread. But this darkness has produced the chrysalis, and we within the darkness feel the beginning of our throes. The inevitable change, after centuries upon centuries of preparation, is about to begin.
“One needs only eyes to see the necessary influence of old age on reason.”
p, 125
Man a Machine (1747)
