It is not enough to be electors only. It is necessary to be law-makers

Well, I've always wanted to call my son

The cyber world is sort of the Wild, Wild West, and to some degree, we're asked to be the sheriff.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

As children we all possess a natural uninhabited curiosity, a hunger for explanations, which seems to die slowly as we age--suppressed, I suppose by the need not to appear ignorant.

But what virtue I do have is in me and of me. Men deny the good that comes from themselves, calling it God. So do they with their won evil, calling it the Devil.

As he heard me approach, he quickly leaped up, grabbing a nearby loaf of bread and holding it in front of him as if struck by a sudden desire to make a sandwich.

There should be a revenue stream that helps pay for the publication or for the work and helps pay the people who do it.

To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.

[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.

If you don't try things and take risks, you don't really grow and figure out what you want.