. . . the country deserves us to be willing to compromise on behalf of the greater good.
The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.
No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.
Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.
Do not judge from mere appearances.
Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go.
Some people spend all their lives searching for their soul mates.
Pompeii is an extraordinary place to be because it was preserved exactly as it was. There are many other sites. If you visit any other antiquity-type sites throughout the world, they're very damaged with what's gone on over the centuries since they were abandoned. But this one was just, like, sealed, so you're looking at rock surfaces and the carving of letters and names in the stones looks like it was done yesterday.
I have let things slip, a thirty-year~old cargo boat Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address.