Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life?
There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.
If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.
If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.
There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.
Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.
I've always assumed he'd be around to be, you know, yelled at and taken for granted. And of course I was wrong. Nobody's going to put up with that forever.
It is the duty of man to raise up man.
. . . in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely.
The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.