We never can create a public sentiment strong enough to suppress the dram-shops until God's people take hold of the temperance reform as a part of their religion.
They managed to sleep together, but there wasn't enough for dreaming.
The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.
Freedom is where you can live, as pleases a brave heart; where you can live according to the customs and laws of your Fathers; where you are made happy by that which made your most distant ancestors happy.
Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.
Sorrow eats your heart and courage.
Tears are the messengers of true love.
My favorite time of the holidays is when the children have torn open their loot and delivered their verdicts and are looking to you for something else. . . memories that have nothing to do with things bought.
Today, I find inspiration in music, art, traveling the world, and meeting new people.
They had stopped now and he gave a glance up at the sky, through the trees, as though to see how much time was left. Amber, watching him, was suddenly struck with panic. Now he was going--out again into that great world with its bustle and noise and excitement--and she must stay here. She had a terrible new feeling of loneliness, as if she stood in some solitary corner at a party where she was the only stranger. Those places he had seen, she would never see; those fine things he had done, she would never do. But worst of all she would never see him again.
Breaking news is a thing that's on TV all day. 10 or 15 years ago, breaking news would get everybody around the table because it was going to be something huge.