Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Thomas Jefferson survives.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Prayer is nothing other than attention in its fullness.

-- Simone Weil

I owe you the truth in painting and I will tell it to you.

-- Paul Cézanne

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

-- Oprah Winfrey

Decent business management is the most profitable approach in the long run, and business morality need not be as impoverished as it is often portrayed.

-- Robert Bosch

Lord, grant me chastity and continence — but not yet.

-- Augustine of Hippo

Clever deceit is no match for clumsy honesty.

-- Han Fei