“A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent”
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“A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent”
“Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame”
“It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late”
“The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women”
“Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death”
“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free”
“Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members”
“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word: excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it”
“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation”
“Growth itself contains the germ of happiness”
“Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied”
“The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.”
“A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love”
“Hunger makes a thief of any man”
“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration”
“The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.”
“The true wisdom of life consists in seeing the extraordinary in the common”
“When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place”
“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday”
“Order is the shape upon which beauty depends”