The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.
I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are reckoning without the facts. The proportions and relations of things are just as much facts as the things themselves.
The only Christian work is good work, well done
Praise God (or whatever it is) from (if direction exists) whom (if personality exists) all blessings (if that word corresponds to any percept of objective reality) flow (if Heraclitus and Bergson and Einstein are correct in stating that everything is more or less flowing about).
Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to them, or you are moved to the marrow by walls that climb and branch, and break into a inflorescence of pinnacles.
Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme.
I don't associate much with anybody. I'm not big on all the teachings and groups and being a part of something, I guess.
The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.
If people don't hold grudges, it means they just don't care what people do.