The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and f...
By some 220 years Gutenberg’s lead-cast printing type in Germany in 1450.
What is the conscience? It is the most highly developed part of the human being, the core of the spirit, the most sensitive, the most tender.
This seems right to them today and that tomorrow and they do not know that one man’s mind cannot say what is the true right for another. No, in their pride of a little learning they rush out to do evi...
They were prisoners, trapped by old ways of life, jailed within the imperial palace. He was no more free than she was. Yet only she could do what she would. If she said she would be Empress, then none...
The very young are not ready for much knowledge. It must be given to them slowly, in proportion to their years of life. One must first live before he can safely know.
Like most garden lovers, he could never enjoy the perfection of the garden as much as he wished, because his overzealous eye saw always some imperfection, too minute to be noticed by a stranger.
Had she not created even him? Perhaps for that he never forgave her, but hated her and fought her secretly, and dominated her and oppressed her and kept her locked in houses and her feet bound and her...
In this unbelievable universe in which we live there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines reaching into infinity meet somewhere yonder.
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
And his voice came from him in a whisper,
You see how loving kindness conquers fear, even in animals. Let this lesson be engraved upon your hearts.
Rennie was off again to go with his friends to a motion picture.
Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...- Wang Lung
Nothing is destroyed, only changed.
None on earth can love those who declare that they alone are the sons of God.
I think not everyone can see the whole picture. It has long been said we each see what we look for. You and I, we look at land and think of seed and harvests. A builder looks at the same land and thin...
I am entirely happy except that I feel the need of more knowledge of some sort. What sort I do not know myself. Perhaps it is not so much knowledge as more understanding of that which you already know...
Praise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then life is dull without it.