85 quotes found
“Be secret and exult Because of all things known That is most difficult.”
“Florence Farr once said to me "If we could say to ourselves with sincerity 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know ' we could die upon the instant and be united with God."”
“She bid me take love easy as the leaves grow on the tree But I being young and foolish with her would not agree.”
“The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.”
“Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.”
“Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
“Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.”
“But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
“In dreams begins responsibility.”
“Style personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.”
“The best lack all conviction while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.”
“Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.”
“Joy is the will which labours which overcomes obstacles which knows triumph.”
“Joy is the will which labors which overcomes obstacles which knows triumph.”
“Only that which does not teach which does not cry out which does not condescend which does not explain is irresistible.”
“Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.”
“A statesman is an easy man He tells his lies by rote A journalist makes up his lies And takes you by the throat So stay at home and drink your beer And let the neighbours vote.”
