Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.
If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall,. . . and the rich and stingy will no longer be able to evade the duties of citizenship and of humanity.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
We rise by lifting others.
The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he convened the Council of Nice to decide whether Jesus Christ was a man or the Son of God. The council decided that Christ was consubstantial with the father. This was in the year 325. We are thus indebted to a wife-murderer for settling the vexed question of the divinity of the Savior.
Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood.
You don't want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to be the dumbest in the room. You want to be surrounded by other thinking people who are going to say something that makes you think, "Oh, my God, that's an amazing idea. Why didn't I think of that. "
At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.
Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.