Henry De la Beche famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.

  • Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.

  • The greatest distance in the world is the 14 inches from our minds to our hearts.

  • God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

  • As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

  • Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.

  • Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.

  • Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver.

  • While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

  • You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.