Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
Our thoughts are often worse than we are.
After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each other, I think.