Analysis and synthesis ordinarily clarify matters for us about as much as taking a Swiss watch apart and dumping its wheels, springs, hands, threads, pivots, screws and gears into a layman's hands for reassembling, clarifies a watch to a layman.
You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character.
Modern man's loss of a sense of being sinful doesn't spring from a feeling that he is inherently good. Rather, it springs from his feeling of being inherently ineffectual.
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
I repeat...that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.