I'd lost count of the disappointments.
The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down!
My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.
Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford.
Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.
I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them.
Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two who truly love each other to be, not who shall command, but who shall yield.
Consensus politics is a cyclical thing-in order to accumulate power, one must dispose of it, and as one disposes of it, one must accumulate more power to replace it. In financial terms, a dollar must be spent to make a dollar-or two, if things go well.
But the sower going forth to sow sets foot into time to come, the seeds falling on his own place. He has prepared a way for his life to come to him, if it will. Like a tree, he has given roots to the earth, and stands free.
Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life.
Honestly, I don't like to brag about myself, but I really think I'm the only boxer who came out better from a Hopkins fight.