No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.
Originality is not doing something no one else has ever done, but doing what has been done countless times with new life, new breath.
There is a fine line between insanity and genius.
Unused creativity is not benign.
In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and enlarges that organ, and gives it a power proportional to the length of time it has been so used; while the permanent disuse of any organ imperceptibly weakens and deteriorates it, and progressively diminishes its functional capacity, until it finally disappears.
Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.