If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.
Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.
The venal herd. [Lat. , Venale pecus. ]
Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience. [Lat. , Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se Judice nemo nocens absolvitur. ]
Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat. , Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano. ]
A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.
A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.
I can't be paralyzed anymore by the critics. My new mantra is, if you're not in the arena getting your ass kicked on occasion, then I'm not interested in your feedback. You don't get to sit in the cheat seat and criticize my appearance or my work with mean-spiritedness if you're also not in the arena.
It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.
A lot of people have no idea that right now Y. A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.