Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

You would oppose law to socialism. But it is the law which socialism invokes. It aspires to legal, not extra-legal plunder. You wish to prevent it from taking any part in the making of laws. You would keep it outside the Legislative Palace. In this you will not succeed, I venture to prophesy, so long as legal plunder is the basis of the legislation within. It is absolutely necessary that this question of legal plunder should be determined, and there are only three solutions of it:1. When the few plunder the many. 2. When everybody plunders everybody else. 3. When nobody plunders anybody. Partial plunder, universal plunder, absence of plunder, amongst these we have to make our choice. The law can only produce one of these results. Partial plunder. This is the system which prevailed so long as the elective privilege was partial; a system which is resorted to, to avoid the invasion of socialism. Universal plunder. We have been threatened by this system when the elective privilege has become universal; the masses having conceived the idea of making law, on the principle of legislators who had preceded them. Absence of plunder. This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, conciliation, and of good sense.

Fr

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

George V. Higgins

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

Pau (Pablo) Casals

Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.

Mark Twain

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

Mahatma Gandhi

What do you see when you look in the mirror?''I? I see myself holding a pair of thick, woolen socks.'Harry stared.'One can never have enough socks,' said Dumbledore. 'Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.

J.K. Rowling

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Christian Nestell Bovee

But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect, science now accomplishes for all men.

Gustave Flaubert

It's well to have such a comfortable assurance regarding the worth of those we love. I only wish you may not find your confidence misplaced.

Anne Bronte

The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.

Karl Lehmann

Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Edward Varese

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius