Pastoral Resources

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.

You have to adjust to where you are but the French are all together - the guys and the women. It's good.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.

I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings.

The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility.

I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.

For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.

But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.

It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us.