It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.
Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.
It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith.
The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.