You can't put civil rights on the ballot.
How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great.
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
There's no finish line. That's a big pill for people to swallow, Every single day for the rest of your life, you are going to have to make better food choices, and move around a bit more.
Certain characters, mostly heroes, have to be the straight silent type; that is part of the make-up.
I walked away a little disheartened, thinking, 'Oh well. I came a long way to meet the Wizard of Oz, but I guess I won't. Such is life.
English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.