It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You don't want to take any chances.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

The world is content with setting right the surface of things.

And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.

Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.

God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what suits one would not suit another. And the ways by which perfection is reached vary very much; the medicines necessary for our souls are very different from each other. Thus God leads us by strange ways; we know He wills our happiness, but we neither know what our happiness is, nor the way. We are blind; left to ourselves we should take the wrong way; we must leave it to Him.