The Blessing Which We Associate

I Had A Consuming Ambition To Possess A Miller's Thumb. I Believe I Have Never Since Wanted Anything More Desperately Than I Wanted My Right Thumb To Be Flattened As My Father’s Had Become, During His Earlier Years Of A Miller’s Life.

Keep Friends Close But Keep Enemies Closer.

The Task Of Youth Is Not Only Its Own Salvation But The Salvation Of Those Against Whom It Rebels, But In That Case There Must Be Something Vital To Rebel Against And If The Elderly Stiffly Refuse To Put Up A Vigorous Front Of Their Own, It Leaves The Entire Situation In A Mist.

We All Know That Each Generation Has Its Own Test, The Contemporaneous And Current Standard By Which Alone It Can Adequately Judge Of Its Own Moral Achievements, And That It May Not Legitimately Use A Previous And Less Vigorous Test. The Advanced Test Must Indeed Include That Which Has Already Been Attained; But If It Includes No More, We Shall Fail To Go Forward, Thinking Complacently That We Have "arrived" When In Reality We Have Not Yet Started.

As Democracy Modifies Our Conception Of Life, It Constantly Raises The Value And Function Of Each Member Of The Community, However Humble He May Be.