I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Maybe they were terrorists!
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.