It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.
The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea.
The government is fully capable of delivering services. Even complex services.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
To think is to practice brain chemistry.
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
