Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.
Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore.
After all, God is God because he remembers.
What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
