He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave.

The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time.

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair It has mantled a world.

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security.

O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good.

It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

Lord, what fools these mortals be! -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 The very activities for which we were created are, while we live on earth, variously impeded: by evil in ourselves or in others. Not to practice them is to abandon our humanity. To practice them spontaneously and delightfully is not yet possible. This situation creates the category of duty, the whole specifically moral realm. It exists to be transcended. Here is the paradox of Christianity. As practical imperatives for here and now, the two great commandments have to be translated "Behave as if you loved God and man". For no man can love because he is told to. Yet obedience on this practical level is not really obedience at all. And if a man really loved God and man, once again this would hardly be obedience; for if he did, he would be unable to help it. Thus the command really says to us, "Ye must be born again". Till then, we have duty, morality, the Law. A schoolmaster, as St. Paul says, is to bring us to Christ. We must expect no more of it than of a schoolmaster; we must allow it no less.

You may go to Carlisle's and to Almanac's too; And I'll give you my Head if you find such a Host, For Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, Butter, or Toast; How he welcomes at once all the World and his Wife, And how civil to Folks he ne'er saw in his Life.

All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear, All intellect, all sense, and as they please They limb themselves, and colour, shape, or size, Assume, as likes them best, condense or rare.

Yet I argue not Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of right or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.

It'd be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.