| |  | | | | | | | | | | | A child enters your home and makes so much noise for twenty years that you can hardly stand it: then departs leaving the house so silent that you think you will go mad | | Children | | | A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness | | Epitaphs and epigrams | | | At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage | | Uncategorized | | | Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe. | | Anarchy; Boys; Society | | | It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. | | Uncategorized | | | Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both | | Speech | | | There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. | | Generosity; Helpfulness | | | To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. | | Beauty; Poetry; Reading | | | When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way after many other speeches | | Uncategorized | | | Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. | | Uncategorized | | | | | Quotes: 1 - 10 of 10 | Pages: 1 | | | |
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