Now then, Mr. Crab," said the zebra, "here are the people I told you about; and they know more than you do, who live in a pool, and more than I do, who live in a forest. For they have been travelers all over the world, and know every part of it." "Th...
He had always wanted to write music, and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought. If you want to know what it is, he told himself, listen to the first phrases of Tchaikovsky’s First Concerto--or the last movement of Rachmaninoff’s ...
In Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis argues that human beings cannot be truly good or moral without faith in God and without submis- sion to the will of Christ. Unfortunately, Lewis does not provide any actual data for his assertions. They are nothing m...
If we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth, then we will have begun to make fundamental and necessary changes in our minds. We will begin to understand and to mistrust and to change our wasteful economy, which markets no...
The odor of burning sulphur shifted on the night air, acrid, a little foul. Somewhere, the Canaan dwellers had learned of a supplier of castor - an extract from the beaver's perineal glands. Little packets containing the brown-orange mass of dried an...
What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began? It could not be a wall; but there could be a thin thin line there all round everything. It was very big to think ...
Yet surely that story she had imagined was a real thing? If you created a story with your mind surely it was just as much there as a piece of needlework that you created with your fingers? You could not see it with your bodily eyes, that was all....t...
[the Deep Core crew are locked in the kitchen; Coffey is about to nuke the aliens] Lindsey Brigman: Schoenick, your Lieutenant's about to make a real bad career move! Alan "Hippy" Carnes: The guy's crazier than a shit-house rat! Virgil: Schoenick! Li...
A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
The man who has eaten enough will never believe a hungry one.
Ask advice of an ignorant man and he will think you are his enemy.
God has spared the naked man from washing his clothes with soap.
Show no fear to the man who picks up a big stone.
The gravity of the earth is so strong that the old grey man walks crooked.
A light is still a light -- even though the blind man cannot see it.
Before you ask a man for clothes, look at the clothes that he is wearing.
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
A man combs his hair every morning -- why not his heart?
A man must make himself despicable before he is despised by others.
If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if you employ him, don't suspect him.
Man cannot stir one inch without the push of heaven's finger.
