Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived.
Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin.
To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.
Our Jewishness is not a creed, it is ourself, our totality. Indeed, it may be fairly said that the surest evidence of your lack of seriousness in religion is the fact that your religions are not national, that you are not compromised and dedicated, en masse, to the faith.
No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others.
We may not understand why certain things occur in our lives, but we understand who to run to when they do.
Philistine - a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined, however, as the name applied by prigs to the rest of their species.
It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things work but only the kind of quick, easy outer impression that they get.
When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so.
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.
One may sigh for all that one loses in giving up the old religion. . . but the new irreligion is the manlier, honester and simpler thing, and affords a better throry of life and a more solid basis for morality.
Mathematics may be a way of developing physically, that is anatomically, new connections in the brain.
I'm actually very scared of sharks. I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was young, which may not have been compatible with that fear.
It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc. , if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands now, we make ourselves stronger; and improving our strength in this manner step by step, we may reach a state in which it shall be our privilege to do the most coveted and honored duties in life and in society.
The West is dead. . . you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.
People may have too much of a good thing:Full as an egg of wisdom thus I sing.
Science may not be as intimate as the medical profession; nonetheless, it certainly is a community in which ideas are often shared as contributions, not as proprietary things.
