It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

The two pillars of political correctness is willful ignorance and the steadfast refusal to face the truth.

The two pillars of 'political correctness' are:
a) willful ignorance
b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth

Nature is brimful of symbolic and analogical parallels to the goings and comings, the growth and the changes of the highest nature in man. It could not be otherwise. For not only did they issue from the same thought, but the one is made for the other. Nature is an outer garment for man, or a living house, rather, for man to live in.

Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.