One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books but no one can get anything out of life without God.
Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness a covenant between radically different persons male and female and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen a covenant between radically different partners.
Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
To cement a new friendship especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person and cut across the accidents of place and time.
Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
In short is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes and are upon a footing with them.
The love of the famous like all strong passions is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically and it is independent of persons.
The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media.
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.
So the poet who wants to be something that he cannot be and is a failure in plain life makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for after all habit is relative to a stereotyped world and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons things situations seem alike.
Observation more than books and experience more than persons are the prime educators.
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life the punishment of crimes against property and persons the equality of all good citizens before the law... or in a word justice.
In order to get beyond racism we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally we must treat them differently.
Even private persons in due season with discretion and temper may reprove others whom they observe to commit sin or follow bad courses out of charitable design and with hope to reclaim them.
If some persons died and others did not die death would be a terrible affliction.
Every man has his own courage and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
It frequently happens that two persons reasoning right on a mechanical subject think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
Time heals griefs and quarrels for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.