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The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
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I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
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I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
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Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.
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As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.
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The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
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We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.
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Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.
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Put yourself out of your misery.
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All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
