“The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.” MenFactsEmotionCasesHe ManJudgingEssentialsPrejudiceAngerPityAppeals Book:Rhetoric Source: Rhetoric
“How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over the sorrows of our human Brethren and Sisteren, we are in fact, tho' perhaps unconsciously, moved at the prospect of our own End for who sincerely pities Sea-sickness, Toothache, or a fit of the Gout in a lusty Good-liver of 50?” HumansEndsFactsChristianVirtueSeaFitSorrowMovedPitySicknessSensibilitySincerelyFear Of DeathMeltingLiverBrethrenToothacheGout Book:Collected Letters: 1820-1825 Source: Collected Letters: 1820-1825