What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
If people are not laughing at you’re goal, then you’re goals are too small.
Every cause produces more than one effect.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
Prayers without accordant action are silent lies told to oneself, heard by no God, amounting to nothing. Action is the language of truth, the prayers of the Saints.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.