But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.
Books are humanity in print.
Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.
The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.
There's never been A day in the last four years I've been proud to be his Vice President. Not a single day.
I got into cooking out of self-defense.
A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.