The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.
To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.
The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.
As we are, so we see.
God turns His back on those who quarrel among themselves.
The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.
We need a commander in chief not a professor of law standing at a lectern - the lectern.
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.