Men can bear all things but good days.
How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?
If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.
. . . preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).
To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.
How agreeable to watch, from the other side of the high stile, this mighty creature, this fat bull of Bashan, snorting, champing, pawing the earth, lashing the tail, breathing defiance at heaven and at me. . . his heart hot with hate, unable to climb a stile.
If a person claims to have met Jesus without being changed then they have not met the real Jesus.
I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.
I'm not someone who gives prescriptives at the end of my films.