With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted.
Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.
When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H. M. S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream. "
I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.
It's love that makes the world go round.
I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.
It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.
We were enclosed, O eternal Father, within the garden of your breast. You drew us out of your holy mind like a flower petaled with our soul's three powers and into each power you put the whole plant, so that they might bear fruit in your garden, might come back to you with the fruit you gave them. And you would come back to the soul, to fill her with your blessedness. There the soul dwells like the fish in the sea and the sea in the fish.
Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.