If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology the whole earth would blaze

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart, for his purity by definition is unassailable.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious ,one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense once hate is gone they will be forced to deal with pain.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

Love is when two people know everything about each other and are still friends.

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.