Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time. Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation.
Let us live this day in that light, that life, and that peace, so that we may gain the victory over those things that press us down.
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
In history, as elsewhere, fools rush in, and the angels may perhaps be forgiven if rather than tread in those treacherous paths they tread upon the fools instead.
Being honest may not get you many friends but it'll always get you the right ones.
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.
When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.
At the end of medicine is dope; at the end of life is death; at the end of man may be the Hell which arrives from the vanities of the mind.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
there is a silent beauty hidden amongst pain, if you sit in it you may never find it; if you grow through it, You'll find the treasure.
Life can be seen through several spectrums of light, but it’s the person who is doing the soul searching that defines what they may see.
That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.
Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
