How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.