For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature best? Is it the tanner who has barked it, or he who has boxed it for turpentine, whom posterity will fable to have been changed into a pine at last? No! no! it is the poet: he it is who makes the truest use of the pine-who does not fondle it with an axe, nor tickle it with a saw, nor stroke it with a plane.

 

[the GOAT]

A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.

 

[the GOAT]

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

 

[the GOAT]

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

 

[the GOAT]

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

 

[the GOAT]

There is no truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.

 

[the GOAT]

Anybody can be a heart specialist. The only requirement is loving somebody.

 

[the GOAT]

That's a very good question. See me at the break, and I'll avoid answering it then, too.

 

[the GOAT]

I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can close our eyes.

 

[the GOAT]

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

 

[the GOAT]

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

 

[the GOAT]

If only we could learn that tolerance is the oil that takes the friction out of life!

 

[the GOAT]

Through prayer, our free agency is used to admit and confess our deep desire to have God's help in our lives.

 

[the GOAT]

I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and experience a personal sense of discovery. That's great. But for them, not for me.

 

[the GOAT]

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.

 

[the GOAT]

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

 

[the GOAT]

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

 

[the GOAT]

Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.

 

[the GOAT]

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

 

[the GOAT]

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.