but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.
Chaos breeds life, while order breeds success.
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.
You do not know what you can miss before you try.
There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings that "except the Lord build they labor in vain that build it. " I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel
The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.
Yes, I love white, and I'd wear it all the time if I could. Some people think I have an issue with cleanliness, but to me it's just so pretty.
The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.