England is surrounded by enemies-by real enemies who hate her. Why? Because she tries to be honest; and she tries to be free.
General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!
My vocation to preach on paper.
It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
You breathe in and out; you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you're able to put one foot in front of the other.
It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others must fail.
If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.
For Al Gore and Paul Ehrlich and Co. , whatever the problem, the solution is always the same. Whether it's global cooling, global warming, or overpopulation, we need bigger government, more regulation, higher taxes, and a massive transfer of power from the citizens to some unelected self-perpetuating crisis lobby.