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Playing seems to be both disinterested and passionate at the same time; disinterested in that it is not for real, and passionate in the absorption it requires.
So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such who are in the institution wish to get out; and such as are out wish to get in.
From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
Work 'em hard, play 'em hard, feed 'em up to the nines and send 'em to bed so tired that they are asleep before their heads are on the pillow.
Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing, where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.
Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.
