““Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
— John Adams
Personal Notebook
““Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
— John Adams
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Let your mind become a lens, thanks to the converging rays of attention; let your soul be all intent on whatever it is that is established in your mind as a dominant, wholly absorbing idea.”
— Antonin-Dalmace Sertillanges
A day of acquaintance,
And then the longer span of custom.
But first —
The hour of astonishment.
“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.”
“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”
“Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.”
— Will Rogers
“The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.”
“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
“Luck is the residue of design.”