While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.
I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.
Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.
I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.
I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting.
I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds. . . I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.
a woman's heart has no wrinkles.
Imagination is the will of things. . . .
Once we admit that there is room for newness - that there are vastly more conceivable possibilities than realized outcomes - we must confront the fact that there is no special logic behind the world we inhabit, no particular justification for why things are the way they are. Any number of arbitrarily small perturbations along the way could have made the world as we know it turn out very differently.
I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.