Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.
It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.
The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands.
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
Logic is the anatomy of thought.
I'm not super open to new people. I have a small group of people I trust. I'm very intuitive, so I'm good at feeling out how people are, like if they have bad intentions. Sometimes I'm very closed off, which annoys me, but I think it's for the best.
Happy Thanksgiving! I broke into Best Buy and stole a copy of Pocahontas to celebrate.
There are many levels of organization in nervous systems. Hence we aim to explain mechanisms at one level in terms of properties and dynamics at a lower level, and to fit that in with the properties at the higher levels.
Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.