As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. – Samuel Johnson Category: Humankind
It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Category: Humankind
Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Category: Humankind
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. – R. Buckminster Fuller Category: Humankind
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. – Socrates Category: Nature
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. – Edward Abbey Category: Government
Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not for long, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own. – Studs Terkel Category: Jazz
