Pastoral Resources

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.

I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.

Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media.

A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity.

I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.

When the movie was done, Number Five was crated up. Eric took him over to Germany; displayed him over there because Germans really liked this movie. It was very popular with them.

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.

Woman absent is woman dead.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.