The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.
If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.
When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.
How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.
I love the process of being taken from where I am to somewhere else.
Even when I use a word in the wrong order in a sentence, I get mad. It's very stressful.
I paint in acrylic and sometimes in oil. Sometimes I'll paint my kids. And I'll occasionally do some photography.
And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.
The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
Pet foods come in a variety of flavors because that's what humans like, and we assume our pets like what we like. We're wrong.
J. Edgar Hoover: Mister President, you know we can shut men with power down, permanently and unequivocally.
Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.
