The evil that is in Man comes of sluggish minds…for sluggards cannot think, and will not…Send upon us thy flames that we may be burnt of dead thoughts, even as we burn dead grass…make us...

It hurt to think that a boy would not have him at his value of himself.

She has passed information to you. Figures names and facts. You have learnt nothing very much. But you have a splendid memory. It will help you when you start to learn.

Yet Conscience is a nobleman, the best in us, and a friend.

There is silly are people. You must suffer, or cause others to suffer, before you will have respect of one kind or the other from them…I will not stand to be looked at by anybody,...

’There is beautiful you are.’ ‘No,’ said Marged, between a sigh and a sob. ‘Yes,’ said Owen. ‘No,’ said Marged, not so certain. ‘Behold,’ Owen said, from Solomon. ‘Thou art fair. Thou hast dove’s eyes.’...

It is strange how loud little sounds become when you are in the dark and doing something wrong.

Prayer is only another name for good, clean, direct thinking. When you pray, think well what you are saying, and make your thoughts into things that are solid. In that manner, your prayer will have...

The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.

Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.

Pain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you.

Dear little house that I have lived in, there is happiness you have seen, even before I was born. In you is my life, and all the people I have loved are a part of...

It is simple. Men lose their birthrights for a mess of pottage only if they stop using the gifts given them by God for their betterment. By prayer. That is the first and greatest gift....

My business is anything that comes between men and the Spirit of God.

Listen to me. Forget all you saw. Leave it. Take your mind from it. It has nothing to do with you. But use it for experience. Now you know what hurt it brings to women...

Let the Unions become engines for the working people to right their wrongs. Not benefit societies, or burial clubs. Let the Unions become civilian regiments to fight in the cause of the people.

There is strange, and yet not strange, is the kiss. It is strange because it mixes silliness with tragedy, and yet not strange because there is good reason for it. There is shaking by the...

Worry, my son?…I am not worried now and I never have or will. You must learn to tell worry from thought, and thought from prayer. Sometimes a light will go from your life…and your life...

Though neither happiness nor respect are worth anything, because unless both are coming from the truest motives, they are simply deceits. A successful man earns the respect of the world never mind what is the...

It is strange how you shall hate a man, and yet pity him from the depths.

The man who goes to the top is the man who has something to say and says it when circumstances warrant. Men who keep silent underdressed are moral cowards.

Then all the winds of Heaven ran to join hands and bend a shoulder, to bring down to me the sound of a noble hymn that was heavy with the perfume of Time That Has...

You must learn to tell worry from thought and thought from prayer. Sometimes a light will go from your life, and a thought becomes a prayer til you are strong enough to stand under the...

That is the trouble…You are a crowd of bits of boys all in the thing for what you will get. Demands, you call them. Well, I am against demands of any kind. You cannot reason...

A man will will never know a woman until he knows her work.

…[F]or there are times when bed is the only place on earth where peace is to be had, and that was one of them.

Hard it is to suffer through stupid people. They make you feel sorry for them, and if your sorrow is as great as your hurt, you will allow them to go free of punishment, for...

As your father keeps clean his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit.

You know your Bible too well and life too little.

It is very strange to think back like this, although come to think of it, there is no fence or hedge round Time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like...

The beauty and music…It is a call…And some are not strong.

But even of him I can think of with sorrow, now at this moment.Those times, those people…have gone. How can there be fury felt for things that are gone to dust.

For as men have fists and heads to defend themselves, so women have a gentleness of silence about them, a barrier built of things of the spirit, of pain, of quiet, of helplessness, of grace,...

But I was born in the image of God, a man, a creator, with power of life and death, a father, blessed with the gift of the seed of Adam, a sower of seed, to...

You must realize…that the men of the Valley have built their houses and brought up their families without help from others, without a word from the Government. Their lives have been ordered from birth by...

Women have their own braveries, their own mighty courageousness that is of woman, and not to be compared with the courage shown by man.

For it is discomfort’s own essence to be near a man and to feel him in torture of misery, to feel with him the very pain of the misery, and yet to be unable to...

O, blackberry tart, with berries as big as your thumb, purple and black, and thick with juice, and a crust to endear them that will go to cream in your mouth, and both passing down...

I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.

Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.

There is a spirit greater than you, always within reach of you, but he only comes to take charge when your own spirit is lost, and cries out in his own tongue, which you cannot...

Before you are much older…you will have policemen here to stay. A magistrate will be next. Then perhaps even a jail. And the counterparts of those things are hunger and want, and misery and idleness....

Sing, then. Sing, indeed, with shoulders back, and head up so that song might go to the roof and beyond to the sky. Mass on mass of tone, with a hard edge, and rich with...

Let all things be done in order, with right and decency. Those things are worth a man’s life or two. Life without would be a hell, indeed.

What is ordinary to you maybe a desert of woeful newness to another.

Now you know what hurt it brings to women when men come into the world. Remember, and make it up to your Mama and to all women.

Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.

Man is a coward in space, for he is by himself.

…[I]t is pain to think of innocence in ruin.

You will only learn in a fight how much you’ve got to learn.