I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.
The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration.
The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.
Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves
In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.
What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is something in the softness of the air, in the lengthening of the days, in the very sounds and odors of the sweet time, that caresses us and consoles us after the rigorous weeks of winter.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?
In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research.
for Christ's sake, were the mountains blue, then chuck on some blue and don't go telling me that it was a blue a bit like this or like that, it was blue wasn't it? Good - make them blue and that's enough!
Covenants without swords are but words.
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