A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it.
To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.
The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.
people's feelings about themselves change when they change the way they handle their money. Once they begin treating their money with respect, their self-respect shoots up as well.
Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.
People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.