The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.
All of us must act selfishly to Iearn charity, must lie to learn honor, must betray and be betrayed to learn to value trust and commitment.
Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.
Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.
My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.
Much of the rest of the world has already learned some English. They pretty much understand the American way of doing things, because our culture has been ubiquitous and has been the 500-pound gorilla in the global economy. But the world is far more interrelated than ever before, and no one culture can thrive without the knowledge of how to function in other cultures.
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
Virtue lives when Beauty dies.
There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.
The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.
Despatch is the soul of business.
The Wise (Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay; But in their books, as from their graves they rise. Angels--that, side by side, upon our way, Walk with and warn us!
Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
No one can bring to God what you can.
It sounds bad, but they don't care about your age if you're famous.
The process could be likened to relaxing on a riverbank and watching a fish leap out of the water, sparkle for a moment in the sunlight, then dive back in a graceful arc. There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.
Jesus will brush aside your inabilities.
There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!
He (God) doesn't need me, but He desires me.
Something larger is happening than just going to heaven.
The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.
The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.
