When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?

Great towers take time to construct.

...that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and for aye. Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all earthly effort.

The dinner-hour is the summer of the day: full of sunshine, I grant; but not like the mellow autumn of supper.

A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.

What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?

I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, no matter how comical.