The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
Steve Jobs doesn't use a Mac, and won't, because it's too crappy in his opinion.
Thomas Jefferson explained, Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. . . If Congress can determine what constitutes the general welfare and can appropriate money for its advancement, where is the limitation to carrying into execution whatever can be effected by money?.
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others.