A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.
All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
Truths kindle light for truths.
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. This terror therefore and darkness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of day, but by the aspect and law of nature.
. . . Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
I never get to go to movies, because I'm a mom.
Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.
A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.
We give each other a wide berth even if we have the flu, let alone. . . So, I think that's part of the stigma that people who have diseases suffer. It's almost infectious. . . if somebody is closer to death, they're almost a bad omen and I think that's terrible.