Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. – Oliver Wendell Holmes,Jr.
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We bow with resignation beneath the tempestuous storms of life; but a daily vexation, like a moth eating a garment, consumes our virtue. – Anonymous, Aphorisms; or, A Glance at Human Nature, in Original Maxims, 1820
There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent. – Charles Baudelaire
The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep. – Suzanne Fields