A Conversation between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his entering a neighbo...
Advice to a Young Man Remember, my son, you have to work. Whether you handle a pick or a pen, a wheel-barrow or a set of books, digging ditches or editing a paper, ringing an auction bell or writing funny things, you must work. If you look around you...
Human thought is not a firework, ever shooting off fresh forms and shapes as it burns; it is a tree, growing very slowlyyou can watch it long and see no movement very silently, unnoticed. It was planted in the world many thousand years ago, a tiny, s...
To a large degree, the measure of our peace of mind is determined by how much we are able to live in the present moment. Irrespective of what happened yesterday or last year, or what may or may not happen tomorrow, the present moment is where you are...
All of us ought to be able to brace ourselves for the predictable challenges and setbacks that crop up every day. If we expect that life wont be perfect, well be able to avoid that impulse to quit. But even if you are strong enough to persist through...
I am me. In the entire world, there is no one else exactly like me. There are people who have some parts like me but no one adds up exactly like me. Therefore, everything that comes out of me is authentically mine because I alone choose it. I own eve...
I belong to that classification of people known as wives. I am A Wife. And, not altogether incidentally,I am a mother. Not too long ago a male friend of mine appeared on the scene fresh from a recent divorce. He had one child, who is, of course, with...
Most of us take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. The days stretch out in an endless vista, so we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life. The...
Motherly love by its very nature is unconditional. Mother loves the newborn infant because it is her child, not because the child has fulfilled any specific condition, or lived up to any specific expectation. Unconditional love corresponds in one of...
It may seem an exaggeration to say that ambition is the drive of society, holding many of its different elements together, but it is not an exaggeration by much. Remove ambition and the essential elements of society seem to fly apart. Ambition is int...