No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.
If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.
O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters; and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair.
I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.
He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.
This is the equivalent of an “internal shower”. As the spring freshness born of the heavy rains and vast masses of melting snows on mountains in the hinterlands cause rivers to swell and rush turbulently onward to the sea, so too will your blood flow with renewed vigor as the direct result of your faithfully performing the Contrology exercises.
Cameras aren't guns. They can't really hurt you.
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.
A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.