Once he said to his mother, “Do not ask me what is wrong with me, for I do not know. When I reach into my mind I encounter nothing but.
No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
I’m not that interested in people.
I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.
My literary success meant nothing to me.
I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
Republics never survive, for their people do not like freedom but prefer to be led and guided and flattered and seduced into slavery by a benevolent, or not so, benevolent despot. They want to worship Caesar. So, American republicanism will inevitably die and become a democracy, and then decline, as Aristotle said into a despotism.
Mr. Forbes opened his eyes. “If you’ll let me, sir,” he said sharply. “Were you ever a member of the Communist Party? Are you a member now?” My father leaned back in his chair. “No, son, I’m a Republican,” he replied.
We all feel inadequate very often. It’s only when it gets chronic that it is disturbing to one’s emotions and can get out of hand and make you pretty damn miserable.
I loved you and reverenced you, for teachers are the noblest of men and labor for little and only from the fullness of their unselfish souls. In your name, and in my memory of you, I will do the best I can, and remember you always.
An evil man was more bearable to the majority of men than a good man, who was a constant reproach and therefore to be despised.
When you are young you believe the world is all yours, glorious and exhilarating and fascinating and full of promise and trumpets and drums and marches and new worlds,” said Charles. “We don’t ask ourselves what we are living for then. We know. But we forget, later, or it all seems a foolish dream.
There is nothing stronger and nobler than when man and wife are of one heart and mind in a house. A grief to their foes, and to their friends great joy. But their own hearts know it best.
Man and the State. Always must they be enemies, for men had been given freedom by God and the State hated God, and loathed men and everlastingly fought against the rights of men. The liberty of the individual defied the luxury and the privileges of those who deemed themselves greater and wiser than their fellows, and wished to enslave their brothers. The.
Piety without joy, faith without cheer, duty without pleasure, prayer without delight – these do not please the Lord God.
He still gazed at me, but I was confused. “It is not new that men confuse material prosperity with blessedness, and fail to value spiritual prosperity.
You’ll notice that it is the haters of humanity who are always trying to reform it. They want to feel superior to the general run of mankind.
What is it Aristotle said? ‘Republics decline into democracies, and democracies degenerate into despotisms.’ Yes. Populism is becoming popular in America – an old doctrine, though its adherents invariably think it is a new one, age after age.
Life is a comedy for the man who thinks, a tragedy for the man who feels.