Robert B. Leighton famous quotes

Like cats' eyes gleaming in the gloom, the precious diamonds rest.
-- Robert B. Leighton

#Cat #Eye #Diamond

Let us rejoice that we are poor, And have no gold to keep: We do not need to bar the door Ere we can go to sleep.
-- Robert B. Leighton

#Sleep #Doors #Gold

Look in, and know the mind is all that is; And knowing, feeling it is all, Then have ye all.
-- Robert B. Leighton

#Knowing #Feelings #Mind

Each step, each strain of the eye Opens out a new horizon; And every day throws in our way Something new, to grow more wise on.
-- Robert B. Leighton

#Wise #Wisdom #Eye

Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desires of the best and wisest of the species.
-- Robert B. Leighton

#Believe #Men #Stupidity

It is a union with a Higher Good by love, that alone is endless perfection. The only sufficient object for man must be something that adds to and perfects his nature, to which he must be united in love; somewhat higher than himself, yea, the highest of all, the Father of spirits. That alone completes a spirit and blesses it, - to love Him, the spring of spirits.
-- Robert B. Leighton

#Spring #Father #Men

We lie to God in prayer if we do not rely on him afterwards.
-- Robert B. Leighton

#Prayer #Lying #Rely

A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!

On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.

The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.

You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times.

I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday).

The diamond is the hardest stone -- to get.

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.

Of course, personally, I think it'd be tacky to wear diamonds before I'm forty.

Diamonds are forever.