We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.