Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind
Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.
War is the mother of everything.
Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent. "
The unexpected connection is more powerful than one that is obvious.
It is in changing that things find purpose.
You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul.
I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors.
Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining many, desire as it were, to be in collusion with the Church's enemies and in conformity with the open foes of our faith.
But how can you know anything of the impression made on others? Who can assure you that others do not draw therefrom incentives to evil? You do not know the depths of human frailty. . . Oh, how truly was it said that if some Christian women could only suspect the temptations and falls they cause in others with modes of dress and familiarity in behavior, which they unthinkingly consider as of no importance, they would be shocked by the responsibility which is theirs.
I was born with this bow tie made of celluloid on my collar.