The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.
Maids must be wives and mothers to fulfill the entire and holiest end of woman's being.
Assuredly of all earthly conditions uncertainty is the most unblest.
Your theory of partial immortality is abhorrent to me. I would rather disbelieve in the immortality of my own soul than suppose the boon given to me was withheld from any of my fellow creatures.
Politics of all sorts, I confess, are far beyond my limited powers of comprehension. Those of this country as far as I have been able to observe, resolve themselves into two great motives. The aristocratic desire of elevation and separation, and the democratic desire of demolishing and levelling.
My chief time for reading is at night while brushing my hair before I go to bed, and as you may suppose, but little profit and pleasure can be derived from such mere sips at the well of knowledge. 'Tis a great privation to me, for my desire for information increases instead of diminishing, and I look forward with great anxiety to the time when I can improve my poor neglected mind and learn some of the few exhaustless store of things which I wish to know.
They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.
Peace comes from within; do not try to seek it without.
The German chancellor said that our president lives in a different world. I believe he lives in a very real world.
The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.
When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.