[F]or three-quarters of an hour we sat in silence, and the voice of Mr. Gruffydd, wherever he was, filled us again with courage, and with hope of a better world. And his watch was in my hand, warm as...
Why do you go to Chapel, Huw? he asked me, still going on with his work. Because, I said, and then I stopped. Why, indeed? Yes, he said, and smiling. Because you want to? Because you like coming? Beca...
Well, my father said to her, and looked at her. Well, my mother said to him, and looked at him. In that quietness they were speaking their own language, with their eyes, with the way they stood, with...
Though neither happiness nor respect are worth anything, because unless both are coming from the truest motives, they are simply deceits. A successful man earns the respect of the world never mind wha...
The kitchen went so quiet that I could hear the grease dropping from the chickens on the spit. Not a sound else was to be heard except the littler sounds of the new paint finding homes in the cracks,...
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 fullness of it...
I want you all to think not only of yourselves and your families but everybody else who is alive. We are all equal, and all of us need helping and there is nobody to help mankind except mankind.
But you have gone now, all of you that were so beautiful when you were quick with life. Yet not gone, for you are still a living truth inside my mind. So how are you dead, my brothers and sisters, and...
What is there, in the mention of Time To Come, that is so quick to wrench at the heart, to inflict a pain in the senses that is like the run of a sword, I wonder. Perhaps we feel our youngness taken f...
Well, my mother said, and she was not exactly smiling, but as though she was wrapping a smile inside a thought.
This watch my father gave me when I entered the Ministry. I would like to give you more. Take it, Huw. It has marked time that I loved.Warm from his pocket in my hand, the smoothness of gold and glass...
There is no room for pride in any man. There is no room for unkindness. There is not room for wit at the expense of others. All men are born the same, and equal. As you saw today, so come Captains and...
The quiet troubling of the river, and the clean, washed stones, and the green all about, and the trees trying to drown their shadows, and the mountain going up and up behind, there is beautiful it was...
Never mind what you feel. Think. Watch. Think again. And then one step at a time to put things right. As a mason puts one block at a time. To build solid and good. So with thought. Think. Build one th...
Ivor raised his finger, and from top of the Hill down to bottom men and women hummed softly to have the proper key, with sopranos going up to find the octave, and altos climbing, and tenors making sil...
It do seem to me that the life of man is merely a pattern scrawled on Time, with little thought, little care, and no sense of design. Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little n...
Happy we were then, for we had a good house, and good food, and good work. There was nothing to do outside at night, except chapel, or choir, or penny-readings, sometimes. But even so, we always found...
As Davy said, so it happened. The ironworkers started to work in the pit for not much more than some of the boys. Some of them even started pulling the trams in place of the ponies. A lot of the older...
The nose. It can be a nuisance in winter and such a blessing before a meal.
Is that all, sir? I asked him, and worried, with no happiness. Is that all? he said, and held up his hands. What more, then? Well, sir, I said, I thought it was something more. Something terrible. It...