The family must be democratized in that sense in which each individual within its bond shall be sustained in seeking and in maintaining the conditions of personality. No one human being to live solely for other's service..., but all to seek the utmost perfection of individual life as a contribution to the common life; this is the democratic ideal. There seems to be no other inherited institution in which this spiritual essence of democracy can be so clearly and so well realized as it may be and today often is in the private monogamic family.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Giambattista Vico

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

George E. Mueller

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

Sam Levenson

In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance

Thomas Jefferson

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb

I do must decidedly object, and have a most invincible and powerful repugnance to that frequent reference to the Almighty in small matters, which so many excellent persons consider necessary in the education of children. I think it monstrous to hold the source of inconceivable mercy and goodness perpetually up to them as an avenging and wrathful God who - making them in His wisdom children before they are men and women - is to punish them awfully for every little venial offence which is almost a necessary part of that stage of life.

Charles Dickens

I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

Emma Watson

I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.

Frank Carson

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue

William Shakespeare

Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.

Maynard James Keenan

We should live, my Lesbia, and loveAnd value all the talk of stricterOld men at a single penny.Suns can set and rise again;For us, once our brief light has set,There's one unending night for sleeping.Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred,Then another thousand, then a second hundred,Then still another thousand, then a hundred;Then, when we've made many thousands,We'll muddle them so as not to knowOr lest some villain overlook usKnowing the total of our kisses.(Translated by Guy Lee)

Catullus

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

Michael Pollan