Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.
German diligence is actually endurance.
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.
Freedom requires guns.
I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.
Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.
It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said.
So the legs are little short, the knees maybe knock a little but who listens?
In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his moral judgement is part of the very act of seeing, and he is free to use it. I have heard it said that belief in Christian dogma is a hindrance to the writer, but I myself have found nothing further from the truth. Actually, it frees the storyteller to observe. It is not a set of rules which fixes what he sees in the world. It affects his writing primarily by guaranteeing his respect for mystery.
We will keep a commitment to pluralism and not discriminate for or against Methodist or Mormons or Muslims or good people with no faith at all.