Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
My dad, in particular, was adamant that I should finish my education. He encouraged me to go to Oxford, for instance, and I rather doubt I'd have gone if he hadn't. I would have gone straight back to L. A. and tried to start my career.
For small businesses to thrive, they require an environment that is conducive for growth.
There is no quality that we respond to in another that we lack. It might be hidden behind some bad behavior or an old, outdated shadow belief that says we are the exact opposite of what we are seeing in the other person. But I promise you that if you are attracted to a quality in someone else, no matter how great, it also exists inside of you.
In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of as life - the plants and animals that inhabit the earth - has evolved merely to regulate the chemistry of the biosphere. Humans are insignificant participants, far less important to the life cycle than termites. Even the imbalance that we have created by adding massive quantities of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere may be brought back to acceptable levels by other organisms functioning in their capacity to correct excesses.