What we need to discover now in the social realm is the moral equivalent of war; something heroic that will speak to man as
William James
Quotes
John Ruskin
In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will
Earl Douglas Haig
Every position must be held to the last man: there must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the
St. Thomas Aquinas
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.
Frank Knox
I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.
George Bernard Shaw
Economy… the art of making the most of life; the love of economy is the root of all virtue.
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
Henry Ward Beecher
Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.
Allan Bloom
Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul’s raw passions, not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of
Jewish proverb
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.