I'm not psychic. I cannot know what is in the mind of particular public figures.
He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
Joy is the life of man's life.
Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
Its not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.
don't make each room a different color in a small apartment or you'll make yourself nervous.
[Robert] Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian even "at least not systematic"; but how systematically Frostian the worst of his later poems are! His good poems are the best refutation of, the most damning comment on, his bad: his Complete Poems have the air of being able to educate any faithful reader into tearing out a third of the pages, reading a third, and practically wearing out the rest.
Any idiot can train himself into the ground; the trick is working in training to get gradually stronger.