Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.
Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.
I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus.
There are no office hours for leaders.
A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.
A critic is a man who expects miracles.
To-day the whole Christian world prostrates itself in adoration around the crib of Bethlehem and rehearses in accents of love a history which precedes all time and will endure throughout eternity. As if by an instinct of our higher, spiritual nature, there well up from the depths of our hearts, emotions which challenge the power of human expression. We seem to be lifted out of the sphere of natural endeavor to put on a new life and to stretch forward in desire to a blessedness which, though not palpable, is eminently real.
Your voice is wild and simple. You are untranslatable Into any one tongue.
The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again. . . In many cases, the material to be learned in the various subjects is so swollen that only a fraction of it remains in the head of the individual pupil, and only a fraction of this abundance can find application, while on the other hand it is not adequate for the man working and earning his living in a definite field.
We were put on this Earth to help others. Why others were put here is beyond me.
I say, ‘You should blanket me’ or ‘you should blanket her’, meaning like a blanket is a blessing. It’s a way of showing love and caring.