You are what you love.
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too.
Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.
It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.
A difficulty for every solution.
I have lately obtained the opinion of a number of Chief Constables, who declare with almost complete unanimity that the recent great increase in juvenile delinquency is, to a considerable extent, due to demoralising cinematograph films.
A compass is narrow-minded-it always points to the magnetic north. . . We must discipline ourselves, personally, to fight any deviation from the course Jesus set for us. We cannot be tolerant of any other course.
Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and be a road from north to south. We will make a stone wall against the upper river to the west and hold back steamy clouds and rain of Wu peaks. Over tall chasms will be a calm lake, and if the goddess of these mountains is not dead she will marvel at the changed world.
It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.
The Left is acting like a young child, saying 'I want peace'. . . A child says 'I want candy right away,' an adult takes all of the factors into account and understands who he's dealing with.