Derek Randall bats like an octopus with piles
It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.
Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades and dies almost in the very moment of its maturity; yet there is, methinks, a kind of beauty which lives even to old age; a beauty that is not in the features, but, if I may be allowed the expression, shines through them. As it is not merely corporeal it is not the object of mere sense, nor is it to be discovered but by persons of true taste and refined sentiment.
There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a vicious mind: in a virtuous mind it is a virtue, and will be found to take its color from the character in which it is mixed. Ambition is a desire of superiority; and a man may become superior, either by making others less or himself greater.
The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.
Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It is the picture of man.
Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.
To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.
I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.
We are not final because we are infallible, but infallible only because we are final.