Leo had wanted to paint a giant message on the bottom of the hull-WASSUP? with a smiley-face-but Annabeth had vetoed the idea.
All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
Greater is our terror of the unknown.
There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
Time will perfect matter.
My father was a small claims court jester.
One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and human, and yet so futile. There is no villain, no idiot, no saint. There are just men; men who crave ease and power, men who know want and hunger, men who have crawled. They all dream and strive with ecstasy of fear and strain of effort, balked of hope and hate. Yet the rich world is wide enough for all, wants all, needs all. So slight a gesture, a word, might set the strife in order, not with full content, but with growing dawn of fulfillment. Instead roars the crash of hell.