If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

While immensely beneficial to Seoul, is this U.S. guarantee to fight Korean War II, 64 years after the first, wise? Russia, China and Japan retain the freedom to decide whether and how to react, should war break out. Why do we not?

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

We in the West think of peace as society's default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives.

It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess any virtue in its fullness, while the energetic and industrious make notable advances on both fronts.