If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.

If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.

Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.

Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

You look upon the seasons with expectation and await them: wy not seize the seasonal opportunities and exploit them?

To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.

Everyone is good if you see from good side.

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

God damn America for treating her citizens as less than human!

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

Your name is Sanchez, what are you doing playing for Northern Ireland?

Charity, patience and tenderness are very beautiful gifts. If you have them, you want to share them with others.

Someone said DX over here? It was this dipshit with the cowboy hat over here.

Could America exist without an income tax? The idea seems radical, yet in truth America did just fine without a federal income tax for the first 126 years of her history.

When the fighters are in the ring, they want to dictate the pace. I want to dominate, so I want to impose to the other fighter my actions.