Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature.

People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls.

One must realize that war is common, and justice strife, and that all things come to be through strife and are (so) ordained.

One thunderbolt strikesroot through everything

Character is destiny

Many who have learnedfrom Hesiod the countless namesof gods and monstersnever understandthat night and day are one

Always having what we wantmay not be the best good fortuneHealth seems sweetestafter sickness, foodin hunger, goodnessin the wake of evil, and at the endof daylong labor sleep.

The name of the new religion, " said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

Everything that happens in your future is a direct result of what you do today.

Culture, religion, and education, are conspiracies to standardize worldviews.

I suppose if I didn't write for a living and it couldn't be published, I would have wanted to write anyway. I think there's something about the act of writing that organizes thoughts and memories.

Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because they have approached America by different paths.

My father was a Social Gospel, far-left liberal, and to some degree a mystic. But we did not have Bible readings; we had prayers.

Don't make excuses and don't talk about it. Do it.

The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.

How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise

I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details.