The tranquility and peace that a scholar needs is something as sweet and exhilarating as love. Unspeakable joys are showered on us... by the exertion of our mental faculties; the quest of ideas, and the tranquil contemplation of knowledge; delights indescribable, because purely intellectual and impalpable to our senses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace... is freedom in tranquility, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a... calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there's a satisfaction to the game that can't be duplicated. There's a harmony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives... a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet, I keep the...m, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yet I would bear my shortcomings With meet tranquility,... But for the charge that blessed things I'd liefer not have be. O, doth a bird deprived of wings Go earth-bound wilfully!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of ...my retirement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »