I never think of my age, never - I could be 20 or 100. I never think about it, I'm just me.
But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom.
It is, I think, that we are all so alone in what lies deepest in our souls, so unable to find the words, and perhaps the courage to speak with unlocked hearts, that we don't know at all that it is the same with others.
Between the probable and proved there yawns A gap. Afraid to jump, we stand absurd, Then see behind us sink the ground and, worse, Our very standpoint crumbling. Desperate dawns Our only hope: to leap into the Word That opens up the shuttered universe.
Not only are we harried by time, we seem unable, despite a thousand generations, even to get used to it. We are always amazed at it–how fast it goes, how slowly it goes, how much of it is gone. Where, we cry, has the time gone? We aren’t adapted to it, not at home in it. If that is so, it may appear as a proof, or at least a powerful suggestion, that eternity exists and is our home.
. . . So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish to free the slaves; and, especially, his not freeing the slaves in 'loyal' Kentucky and other United States areas or even in Confederate areas occupied by United States troops, such as New Orleans.
God gives us many gifts, but never permanence; that we must seek in his arms.
No man is so great as mankind.
Dogs may be divided into two classes: those who are merely afraid of cattle and those who can't abide them.
All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
It is deeply unfair to task writers of color with unique responsibilities that we don't assign to all writers.