What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.
I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.
Juror #6: You think he's not guilty, huh? Juror #8: I don't know. It's *possible*.
Juror #3: [recurring line] You *what?* Juror #5, Juror #7: You heard me.
Think of the most fussy science teacher you ever had. The one who docked your grade if the sixth decimal place in your answer was rounded incorrectly; who tucked in his periodic table T-shirt, corrected every student who said "weight" when he or she ...
The Emperor, you see, protects... He protects mankind, through the Legions, through the Martial corps, through the war machines of the Mechanicum. He understands the dangers. The inconsistencies. He uses you, and all the instruments like you, to prot...
The days that followed passed slowly. I lay in my hotel room and watched the kind of strange European TV that would probably make perfect sense if I understood the language, but because I didn’t, the programs just seemed dreamlike and baffling. In ...
Love is a devoted madness while marriage is a responsibility. But then it is possible to be devotedly mad and responsible at the same time, yes it is. And so this is how we should begin to see marriage: as it is, for what it is! Marriage needs to cea...
Messenger: Choose your next words carefully, Leonidas. They may be your last as king. King Leonidas: [to himself: thinking] "Earth and water"? [Leonidas unsheathes and points his sword at the Messenger's throat] Messenger: Madman! You're a madman! Ki...
Some men wonder over God's values, others over the cut of a garment.
The path of duty lies in what is nearby, but men look for it in things far off.
Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes.
Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone.
Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.
Men have thought about their marriage a whole year long -- and it lasts but one night.
The rich man makes mistakes and the poor men get the blame.
What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.
Men would not be richer for being miserly; generosity does not make a man poorer.