Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.

Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.

Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it.

Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.

We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.

Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.

A world is supported by four things: the learning of wise, the justice of great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.