The great cathedral space which was childhood.
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make their lives more livable.
(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness.
Tis the last rose of summer. Left blooming alone.
If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.
When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed. ... Time given to thought is the greatest timesaver of all.
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.
This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth.
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
The virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in mortals is the heroical virtue.
Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.
I think a dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.
And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs.
... That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.
Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord, and let your service be according to reason.
Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!