 Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. |
| Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. |
| It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us. |
| In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. |
| But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with. |
| The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory. |
| Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. |
| We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves. |
| If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. |
| Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress. |
| In every parting there is an image of death. |
| Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. |
| Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. |
| Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. |
| There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. |
| Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. Topics: Children |
| I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved. |
| Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. |
| Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. Topics: Animal |
| Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. |
