Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.
Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of happy moments, as well. Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, hardship, the joy, the tragedy, love, and happiness are all interwoven into one single, indescribable whole that is called life. You cannot separate the good from the bad. And perhaps there is no need to do so, either.
We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.
Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself
So much of contemporary liberalism seems to be never having grown up.
Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God. . . It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin.
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a chief of state.
History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media.