God has given you this good stuff so that you can show the world a person who enjoys blessings, but who is still totally obsessed with God.
They only fall, that strive to move, Or lose, that care to keep.
Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
We are our own fates. - Our deeds are our own doomsmen. - Man's life was made not for creeds but actions.
We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. . . . He may live without books,-what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope,-what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love,-what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining?
That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor self: Content to know and be unknown: Whole in himself.
No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere.
It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, "whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection," and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.
I don't think anyone here supports the legislation. But I'd like to hear you at least say that you don't support spanking by any parent, because you choose not to do it. You must think it's wrong.
I make a hundred mistakes a day. I am, and have been, and will continue to be, wrong about almost everything.
Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.