When ignorance mobilizes, it's always the free minds it destroys first.
Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.
So many people glorify and romanticize 'busy. ' I do not. I value purpose. I believe in resting in reason and moving in passion. If you’re always busymoving, you will miss important details. I like the mountain. Still, but when it moves, lands shift and earth quakes.
What is the average type of a counterfeit church? A hammock, attached on one side to the cross, and, on the other, held and swung to and fro by the forefinger of Mammon; its freight of nominal Christians elegantly moaning meanwhile over the evils of the times, and not at ease unless fanned by eloquence and music, and sprinkled by social adulations into perfumed, unheroic slumber.
It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.
We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but by the men they make.
Only the home can found a state.
Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
The discrepancy between equity earnings yields and Treasury yields is at an all time high
Depression is a death within, a knowledge - terrifying - that you cannot resurrect yourself. Depression is loss of the vision that lets leaves breathe and fall, that lets the air smell of seed and soil. And there must be rage, yes I think there is rage toward such a severing, such a ragged-deep rupture with the world.
We want people to take care of themselves. We want people to provide for themselves. We want people to enjoy the fruits of their labors. We want people to enjoy reaching out and making their dreams come true. We want people to realize their life's dreams and passions. You need a growing economy for this.