Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
Memory. . . is an internal rumor.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.
He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.
These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.
Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.
Even if the constants which economists wish to determine were less numerous, and the method of experiment more accessible, we should still be faced with the fact that the constants themselves are different at different times. The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.