Yet Conscience is a nobleman, the best in us, and a friend.
Worry, my son?...I am not worried now and I never have or will. You must learn to tell worry from thought, and thought from prayer. Sometimes a light will go from your life...and your life becomes a p...
I wonder is happiness only an essence of good living, that you shall taste only once or twice while you live, and then go on living with the taste in your mouth, and wishing you had the fulness of it...
It is strange how you shall hate a man, and yet pity him from the depths.
Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.
Pain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you.
Now you know what hurt it brings to women when men come into the world. Remember, and make it up to your Mama and to all women.
I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.
It is strange how loud little sounds become when you are in the dark and doing something wrong.
[F]or there are times when bed is the only place on earth where peace is to be had, and that was one of them.
What is ordinary to you may be a desert of woeful newness to another.
There is no room for pride in any man. There is no room for unkindness. There is no room for wit at the expense of others. All men are born the same, and equal. As you saw to-day, so come the Captains...
The world was created for Mankind, not for some of mankind.
She has passed information to you. Figures names and facts. You have learnt nothing very much. But you have a splendid memory. It will help you when you start to learn.
Man is a coward in space, for he is by himself.
For as men have fists and heads to defend themselves, so women have a gentleness of silence about them, a barrier built of things of the spirit, of pain, of quiet, of helplessness, of grace, of all th...
But to talk of the world that is hidden in every woman is a journey of pain, for the words are not in use to tell of it, and to use the words that are is only a hopping on uneven crutches.
Before you are much older...you will have policemen here to stay. A magistrate will be next. Then perhaps even a jail. And the counterparts of those things are hunger and want, and misery and idleness...
There is silly are people. You must suffer, or cause others to suffer, before you will have respect of one kind or the other from them...I will not stand to be looked at by anybody, especially when th...
The man who goes to the top is the man who has something to say and says it when circumstances warrant. Men who keep silent underdressed are moral cowards.