By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
From George Santayana
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.
Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
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