Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.
Deathless laurel is the victor's due.
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.
Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin. . . Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine.
To find health should be the object of the doctor. Any one can find disease.
Worship of Jesus is rather harmless and risk-free; actually following Jesus changes everything.
Why does the left hate free speech? Because they don't know how to talk about the substantive merits when they are challenged. Having submerged themselves in disciplining each other by denouncing any heretics in their midst, they find themselves overwhelmed and outnumbered in America, where there is vibrant debate about all sorts of things they don't know how to begin to talk about. They resort to stomping their feet and shouting "shut up". . . when they aren't prissily imploring everyone to be "civil. "