Who says reading should be easy? Shouldn't it challenge you as hard sometimes as love. Maybe "hard" is not the right word in this context. Ha!
God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.
He who dethrones the idea of law, bids chaos welcome in its stead.
New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.
Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it can never be made impulsive to good.
After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.
The thing that kills me is all these bands that use huge words in their lyrics, 'I'm swimming in a vortex of apathy. ' I'm like, 'What?' I don't walk up to a friend and go 'That's a stylin' looking vortex of apathy you've got there pal. I was swimming up a river of deceit myself. '
A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
Look how Bill Cohen and George Mitchell worked together. It's the stuff of legends. And now it's the stuff of almost ancient history, regrettably, but the way those two really worked together.
Once you start overthinking it, it's like it ain't a feeling no more.