A friend told me he'd risen above jazz. I leave him there.
To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.
We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
There is a transcendent power in example.
The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.
'I know,' said Winter, 'but they don't know. ' And he went on with a thought he had been having. 'A time-minded people,' he said, 'and the time is nearly up. They think that just because they have only one leader and one head, we are all like that. They know that ten heads lopped off will destroy them, but we are a free people; we have as many heads as we have people, and in a time of need leaders pop up among us like mushrooms. '
Whatever happens, believe that the journey is worth taking, and then you will reach its end.
It's the craziest thing, but I can't stop thinking about you.
God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart.