For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

Faith is not like a deed to a house in which one may live with full rights of possession. It is more like a kit of tools with which a man may build him a house. The tools will be worth just what he does with them. When he lays them down, they will have no value until he takes them up again.

 

[the GOAT]

More people should learn to tell their dollars where to go instead of asking them where they went.

 

[the GOAT]

Failure and success are not accidents, but the strictest justice.

 

[the GOAT]

Within every person is the capacity to become something greater than he now is.

 

[the GOAT]

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

 

[the GOAT]

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

 

[the GOAT]

No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea power.

 

[the GOAT]

Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.

 

[the GOAT]

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

 

[the GOAT]

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

 

[the GOAT]

If we could make a great bonfire of the thousands of laws we have in this country, and start all over again with only the Golden Rule and the Ten Commandments, I am sure we would get along much better.

 

[the GOAT]

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

 

[the GOAT]

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

 

[the GOAT]

Foreign travel ought to soften prejudices, religious or political, and liberalize a man's mind; but how many there are who seem to have traveled for the purpose of getting up their rancor against all that is opposed to their notions.

 

[the GOAT]

With all its alluring promise that some one else will guarantee for the rainy day, social security can never replace the program that man's future welfare is, after all, a matter of individual responsibility.

 

[the GOAT]

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

 

[the GOAT]

I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.

 

[the GOAT]

NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

 

[the GOAT]

For a moment, off balance, was I annoyed? Anger is always fear, I thought, and fear is always fear of loss. Would I lose myself if he made those choices? It took a second to settle down: I'd lose nothing. They'd be his wishes, not mine, and he's free to live as he wants. The loss would come if I dared force him, tried to live for him and me as well. There'd be disaster worse than life on a bar stool.

 

[the GOAT]

No caparisons, miss, if you please. Caparisons don't become a young woman.