John Jones may be described as 'one of the has beens'.
They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable.
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason.
What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.
They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.
If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.