The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.
There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.
The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.
Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?
The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.
From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.
True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like.
I think a lot of things can be misconstrued in a lot of ways. And I think if people open their minds more, and they try to look deeper into something than just something that is a very big, hot, fiery button to hide behind...I think if people looked into something bigger that I was trying to speak upon, they wouldn't be so easy to fire back silly, miscellaneous things.
Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.
On all the peaks lies peace.
I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.
We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian fables, mistaken imitation of Egyptian theories and customs, historical chronicles as dry as they are unreliable and miscellaneous poems, amatory, human and Jewish-national, which is rarely distinguished by beauties of the highest order but frequently by superfluity of expression, coarseness, bad taste, and genuine Oriental sensuality.
There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.
The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.
Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.
I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system.
Oh, one world at a time!
The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it.
Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.
For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.
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