Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress.
Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.
The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.
Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves
In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.
What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is something in the softness of the air, in the lengthening of the days, in the very sounds and odors of the sweet time, that caresses us and consoles us after the rigorous weeks of winter.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?
The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say -- or their beliefs -- or sex.
The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into a pill. Now it is a pill; no one except a few precise scientists define it as anything else. Once the vitamin became a pill, it became real according to the precepts of American Cartesianism: I swallow it, therefore it is.
I've always been taught to care what other people think. My grandmother and mother taught me to project a positive image of myself.
Many people surrender what is possible for what is comfortable.