Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does read more

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues.

Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues.

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him read more

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the read more

The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition such terms have no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a very particular situation... most of our language about the organization and objective's of government is made up of such polar terms. Justice and injustice are typical. A reformer who wants to abolish injustice and create a world in which nothing but justice prevails is like a man who wants to make everything up. Such a man might feel that if he took the lowest in the world and carried it up to the highest point and kept on doing this, everything would eventually become up. This would certainly move a great many objects and create an enormous amount of activity. It might or might not be useful, according to the standards which we apply. However it would never result in the abolishment of down.

Christ didn't waste his time trying to change the social order. Christ spent all his time fighting sin. Therefore it read more

Christ didn't waste his time trying to change the social order. Christ spent all his time fighting sin. Therefore it behooves the witnesses of Christ to say that we do not have to abolish capitalism and establish socialism or communism, that sin can flourish under those systems as well. Christianity is not opposed to any social order, but to sin.

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial read more

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.