Quote: Restraints.

Restraints 118 "The chains which men bear they have imposed upon themselves; strike them off, and they will weep for their lost security." John Passmore. 1970. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Quotes: Resolutions.

Resolution 343 Marianne: "I mean never to be later in rising than six, and from that time till dinner I shall divide every moment between music and reading…have formed my plan and am determined to enter on a course of serious study…by reading only six hours a day I shall gain in the course of a twelvemonth a great deal of instruction which I now feel myself to want." Austen, Sense and Sensibility.

Resolution 347 Marianne: "As for Willoughby—to say that I shall soon or that I shall ever forget him, would be idle; his remembrance can be overcome by no change of circumstances or opinions but it shall be regulated, it shall be checked by religion, by reason, by constant employment." Austen, Sense and Sensibility.

Quotes: Research.

Research 774 "But, to Georgiana, the most engrossing volume was a large folio from her husband’s own world, in which he had recorded every experiment of his scientific career, with its original aim, the methods adopted for its development, and its final success or failure, with the circumstances to which either event was attributable." Hawthorne:

Research 229 "The true scientific investigator completely loses sight of the utility of what he is about." C. S. Peirce. Late 19^th – early 20^th century. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Quote: Rereading.

Rereading 64 "We never return to the same book or even the same page, because…we change…and our memories grow bright and dim and bright again, and we never know exactly what it is we learn and forget, and what it is we remember." Manguel, A History of Reading [i.e., the book does not change, but we do. RayS.]

Quotes: Religion (8)

Religion 159 Dolly ": …you must bring her up like christened folks’s children, and take her to church, and let her learn her catechise, as my little Aaron can say off-—he 'I believe’ and everything, and ‘hurt nobody by word or deed’…." George Eliot, Silas Marner.

Religion 197 Nancy: "To adopt a child, because children of your own had been denied you, was to try and choose your lot in spite of Providence; the adopted child, she was convinced, would never turn out well, and would be a curse to those who had willfully and rebelliously sought what it was clear that, for some reason, they were better without." George Eliot, Silas Marner.

Religion 108 Utopia. "But by far the largest section of the population, and the wisest too…thinks that there is a certain single divinity, unknown, eternal, boundless, inexplicable, beyond the understanding of the human mind, diffused through the whole of this universe in virtue, not bulk." Sir Thomas More, Utopia.

Religion 119 Utopia. "For it is an offense to be present [at religious services] with a troubled mind…people do not go to the rites if they are aware of harboring anger or hatred against anyone…." Sir Thomas More, Utopia.

Religious mania 300 "Many races, like many individuals, have indulged in practices which must in the end destroy them…such customs as collective suicide and the prohibition of marriage, both of which may be set down to religious mania." Frazer, The New Golden Bough.

Quotes: Religion (7)

Religion 167 "The Pastor…the Reverend John Jennison Drew, M.A., D.D., LL.D. …for the Saturday edition of the Evening Advocate…wrote editorials on 'The Manly Man’s Religion' and 'The Dollars and Sense Value of Christianity.' " Lewis, Babbitt.

Religion 169 "If you had asked Babbitt what his religion was, he would have answered in sonorous Boosters’-Club rhetoric, 'My religion is to serve my fellow men, to honor my brother as myself and to do my bit to make life happier for one and all…I’m a member of the Presbyterian Church, and naturally, I accept its doctrines…There’s no use discussing and arguing about religion; it just stirs up bad feeling.' ” Lewis, Babbitt.

Religion 163 "He [Goldstein] was not religious, and yet he believed in a God, a personal God with whom he could quarrel, and whom he could certainly upbraid." Mailer, The Naked and the Dead.

Religion 8 "He had inherited from his mother some acquaintance with medical herbs and their preparation ...but of late years he had had doubts about the lawfulness of applying this knowledge, believing that herbs could have no efficacy without prayer, and that prayer might suffice without herbs...." George Eliot, Silas Marner.

Religion 101 "The inhabitants of Raveloe were not severely regular in their church-going and perhaps there was hardly a person in the parish who would not have held that to go to church every Sunday in the calendar would have shown a greedy desire to stand well with Heaven, and get an undue advantage over their neighbors...." George Eliot, Silas Marner.

Quotes: Religion (6).

Impressions of Religion

Religion 99 I saw a side of [Ambrosch] I had not seen before; he was deeply, slavishly, devout; he did not say a word all morning, but sat with his rosary in his hands, praying, now silently, now aloud...never looked away from his beads, nor lifted his hands except to cross himself; several times the poor boy fell asleep where he sat, wakened with a start, and began to pray again. Cather, My Ántonia

Religion 391 …the firm conviction that life is good because the Lord Himself has ordained it all. Rölvaag, Giants in the Earth.

Religion 316 The doctor [Kennicott] asserted, “Sure religion is a fine influence—got to have it to keep the lower classes in order—fact, it’s the only thing that appeals to a lot of these fellows and makes ‘em respect the rights of property.” Sinclair Lewis, Main Street.

Religion 317 Men [in church] with highly plastered hair, so painfully shaved that their faces looked sore…. Sinclair Lewis, Main Street.

Religion 83 [Mike Monday] has converted over two hundred thousand lost and priceless souls at an average cost of less than ten dollars a head. Lewis, Babbitt.