Pastoral Resources

How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.

I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

There's no reason for Gillette to be world class on the web, but there's every reason for Gillette to be world class in producing billions of high powered razor blades at low cost.

Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer.

An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.

We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.