You can't have a conscience in the pimp game.
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.
Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me. . I did not need it very bad.
My life will always have dirty dishes. If this sink can become a place of contemplation, let me learn constancy here.
Guilt isn't always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not.
The purpose of government is for those who run it to plunder those who do not.