The law's made to take care o' raskills |
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth. |
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best. |
The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character. |
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision |
The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another |
The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite. But in the rarer sort, who presently see their own frustrated claim as one among a myriad, the inexorable sorrow takes the form of fellowship and makes the imagination tender. |
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory. |
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. |
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice. |
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. |
The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey - double and treble the reason for loving as well as working while it is day |
The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature . . . |
There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder. |
There are many victories worse than a defeat. |