All money is a matter of belief.
Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other.
Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.
The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind.
Many with trust, with doubt few, are undone.
Envy is but the smoke of low estate, Ascending still against the fortunate.
Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness.
For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don't know what's next.
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest. Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the knowledge that the wisest and that the most ignorant individual can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant.
Shut up, me,” Leo said aloud. “What?” Piper asked. “Nothing,” he said. “Long night. I think I’m hallucinating. It’s cool. ” Sitting in front, Leo couldn’t see their faces, but he assumed from their silence that his friends were not pleased to have a sleepless, hallucinating dragon driver. “Just joking. ” Leo decided it might be good to change the subject.
The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.