You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.
There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.
Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
As soon as I ended up being incarcerated, I said, you know, this is not the life for me.
Approve not of him who commends all you say.
This law (regarding the theoretical efficiency of heat engines by Mr. Joule), and the law of the maximum efficiency of heat engines, are particular cases of a general law which regulates all transformation of energy, and is the basis of the Science of Energetics.
The key to managing fear and life's tasks is to take the time daily to get organized.