Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not o — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour. ♥ 1 Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start. ♥ 2 [ Of Abraham Lincoln :] His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Never confuse movement with action. Ernest Hemingway When in doubt tell the truth . Mark Twain The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt. Mark Twain Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex. Oscar Wilde