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Literary
August 25, 1877
Middletown Transcript
Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware
What is this article about?
A collection of aphoristic reflections titled 'Thoughts For Thinkers,' covering principles that endure hardship, the humility of duties over sins, afflictions purging sin, the unity of heart and action, education safeguarding liberty, women's speech, educated vs. intelligent people, affronting vs. obliging, respecting the inebriated, respecting ancient foundations while innovating, and the nature of manly friendship, ending with advice on small injuries.
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Thoughts For Thinkers.
-Principles
will penetrate where the bayonet
of armed men cannot; they ride upon
the elements, and defy the whirlwind
and the storm.
It was the saying of an old saint
that he was more afraid of his duties
than of his sins: for the one made him
proud, the other made him always
humble.
Afflictions make a divorce between
the soul and sin. It is not a small
thing that will work sin out of the
soul, it must be the spirit of burning
affection sanctified.
Heart and tongue must go together;
work and work; lip and life; prayer
and practice must echo to one another.
or else the prayers and thy soul will
be lost together.
Education is a better safeguard of
liberty than a standing army. If we
retrench the wages of the schoolmaster,
we must raise those of the recruiting
sergeant.
Half the sorrows of women would
be averted if they could repress the
speech they know to be useless—nay,
the speech they have resolved not to
utter.
I like educated people, but I detest
intelligent ones. I can only endure
intelligence of the second generation,
when it has been softened down into
the habit of knowing.
It is safer to affront some people
than to oblige them; for the better a
man deserves the less they will speak
of him.
People say, "Do not regard what he
is saying now, he is in liquor." Perhaps
this is the only time he ought to
be regarded.
It is good to respect ancient foundations,
but we are not on that account,
to neglect founding something in our
turn.
Vanity, like laudanum and other
poisonous medicine, is beneficial in
small, though injurious in large quantities.
FRIENDSHIP.—Friendship between
men, when it deserves the name, is the
slow growth of mutual respect; is of a
nature calm and simple, professes nothing,
exacts nothing; is, above all, careful
and considerate in its expectations,
and to keep at a distance from the romantic,
the visionary and the impossible. The torrid zone, with its heats
and its tempests, is left to the inexperience
of youth, or to the love that exists
between the sexes; the temperate,
with its sunshine and zephyrs, cheerful
morning and calm evening, is the only
proper region of manly friendship.
Wink at small injuries rather than
avenge them. If to destroy a single
bee you throw down the hive, instead
-Principles
will penetrate where the bayonet
of armed men cannot; they ride upon
the elements, and defy the whirlwind
and the storm.
It was the saying of an old saint
that he was more afraid of his duties
than of his sins: for the one made him
proud, the other made him always
humble.
Afflictions make a divorce between
the soul and sin. It is not a small
thing that will work sin out of the
soul, it must be the spirit of burning
affection sanctified.
Heart and tongue must go together;
work and work; lip and life; prayer
and practice must echo to one another.
or else the prayers and thy soul will
be lost together.
Education is a better safeguard of
liberty than a standing army. If we
retrench the wages of the schoolmaster,
we must raise those of the recruiting
sergeant.
Half the sorrows of women would
be averted if they could repress the
speech they know to be useless—nay,
the speech they have resolved not to
utter.
I like educated people, but I detest
intelligent ones. I can only endure
intelligence of the second generation,
when it has been softened down into
the habit of knowing.
It is safer to affront some people
than to oblige them; for the better a
man deserves the less they will speak
of him.
People say, "Do not regard what he
is saying now, he is in liquor." Perhaps
this is the only time he ought to
be regarded.
It is good to respect ancient foundations,
but we are not on that account,
to neglect founding something in our
turn.
Vanity, like laudanum and other
poisonous medicine, is beneficial in
small, though injurious in large quantities.
FRIENDSHIP.—Friendship between
men, when it deserves the name, is the
slow growth of mutual respect; is of a
nature calm and simple, professes nothing,
exacts nothing; is, above all, careful
and considerate in its expectations,
and to keep at a distance from the romantic,
the visionary and the impossible. The torrid zone, with its heats
and its tempests, is left to the inexperience
of youth, or to the love that exists
between the sexes; the temperate,
with its sunshine and zephyrs, cheerful
morning and calm evening, is the only
proper region of manly friendship.
Wink at small injuries rather than
avenge them. If to destroy a single
bee you throw down the hive, instead
What sub-type of article is it?
Essay
What themes does it cover?
Moral Virtue
Liberty Freedom
Friendship
What keywords are associated?
Aphorisms
Principles
Education
Liberty
Friendship
Morality
Human Nature
Literary Details
Title
Thoughts For Thinkers
Key Lines
Education Is A Better Safeguard Of Liberty Than A Standing Army.
Friendship Between Men, When It Deserves The Name, Is The Slow Growth Of Mutual Respect;
Wink At Small Injuries Rather Than Avenge Them.