Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, ‘Why should I tell it?’ Johann K. Lavater A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way. John Tudor Scandal is gossip made tedious by [...]
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. Arnold Toynbee The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal [...]
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist. Charles de Secondat To administer is to govern: to govern is to [...]
“Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.”-Albert Einstein “Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.”-Euripides “The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.”-Homer We need to find God, and he cannot be [...]
Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense. (Josh Billings) Talent must have memory; genius don’t require it. (Josh Billings) Genius learns from nature; talent from books. (Josh Billings) Men of genius are scarce, but men of genius who use their genius for the benefit of the world are scarcer. (Josh Billings ) Genius is [...]