The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
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Money is like sex. Some people believe that the more sexual experiences they have, with as many different people as possible, the more fulfill...
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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If we were to bring creativity down to earth, it would not have to be reserved for exceptional individuals or identified with brilliance. In ordinary life creativity means making something for the soul out of every experience.
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The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone In the ranks of death you'll find him,...
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By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
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To have achieved core profitability and steady growth within such a short window of time is a testament to the remarkable dedication of our staff and board, as well as the community's overwhelming support of a truly local institution.
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When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
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Durer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this, with eight stranded whales to look at;
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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
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If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.
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That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that has browsed off all the woods on Walden shore, that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the country's champion, the Moore of Moore Hall, to meet him at the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest?
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War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
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We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
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Here lies Lester Moore, Four shots from a .44, No Les, no more.
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He's not out seeing a sight but the rock...
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Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
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The difficulty in life is the choice.
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Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.
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Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance
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America Where a man can say what he thinks, if he isn't afraid of his wife, his boss, his customer, his neighbors, or the government.
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My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
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Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
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Our situation has the disaffected beauty of a chess game.
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Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love.
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In this present moment we are either smaller than we once were or else are on our knees.
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Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.
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Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.
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That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
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