I think that the older you get, the more you become your true, essential self. You find the things that make you happy. You whittle away the parts of yourself that mean less to you.
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.
Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.
Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.
The only foundation for. . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.
Trails need to be wider so people can walk while holding hands.
I might have preferred iron, but bronze will do. It won't rust. And, this time I hope, the head will stay on.
Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast. The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. You, Simon? You believe in this? I don't know, said Simon. His heartbeats were choking him. [. . . ] Ralph shouted. Hear him! He's got the conch! What I mean is. . . maybe it's only us. Nuts! That was from Piggy, shocked out of decorum.
Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.