And as for equality, are the fingers on one hand equal in length? Each has its place.
When we know what we want to prove we go out and find our facts. They are always there.
Your sons
If China is not our suzerain!
And comforted by his greater wisdom he fell asleep again deeply in the darkness and the stillness.
Yet there were times when he did love her with all the kindness she demanded, and how was she to know what were those times? Alone she raged against his cheerfulness and put herself at the mercy of he...
Throw eggs at a rock, and though one uses all the eggs in the world, the rock remains the same.
On croirait qu'il y a en elle deux personnes : l'une silencieuse, lointaine, même un peu taciturne, l'autre très gaie, mais d'une gaieté trop forcée pour être de la vraie joie.
Is our Heaven your God, and is your God our Heaven?' she inquired.'They are one and the same,' he replied...'There is only one true God. He has many names.''Then anywhere upon the round earth, by what...
I don’t know, Pierce. But I do know that when men are frightened and discontented they gather around any man who is not afraid.
I am always moved, with grateful wonder, by the goodness of people. For the few who are prying or meanly critical, for the very few who rejoice in the grief of others, there are the thousands who are...
For the soul of man is born fresh in every child, and there is an age in every creature, unless he is debased too young, when for a time he sees clearly the difference between truth and falsehood, and...
At the southwest corner Malvern joined its fields to that of his nearest neighbor, John MacBain. Pierce held his horse just short of the border and looked across a meadow. Part of the MacBain house ha...
If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.
Who rules well is always hated.
I do not blame you, child, for growing up, she announced. But I teach you this: Whatever happens is always the woman’s fault.
Here was that question: Was life sad or happy? She did not mean her life or any one life, but life itself—was it sad or happy? If she but had the answer to that first question, Peony thought, then she...
He had other fires and these flamed higher than Love.
I am comforted by life's stability by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge.
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.