Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.
This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?
I guess grace doesn't have to [be] logical. If it did, it wouldn't be grace.
Unless you love yourself, you can't love anybody. Be selfish.
The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image; idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is.
The Eternal generates the One. The One generates the Two. The Two generates the Three. The Three generates all things.
Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name.
Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.
Oh, one world at a time!
Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek architecture is the perfect flowering of geometry.
Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.
You have to be deviant if you're going to do anything new.
The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.
If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!
Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.
Whatever come we have to meet it.
