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“In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.”
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“All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”
Source : 1867 'Rousseau and the Sentimentalists', in the North American Review, Jul.
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“Paralysis, anxiety stomachs, arthritis and many ills and aberrations have been relieved by auditing them. An E-Meter shows them up and makes them confess their misdeeds. They are probably just compartments of the mind which, cut off, begin to act as though they were persons.”
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“The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.”
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“You this day, gentlemen, assume new characters, enter into new relations, and consequently incur new duties. You have, by the favor of Providence and the attention of your friends, received a public education, the purpose whereof hath been to qualify you the better to serve your Creator and your country.”
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“I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain.”
Source : "The invitation". Book by Oriah Mountain Dreamer, 1999.
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“Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.”
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“Somewhere between raising hell and amazing grace, Lord I know just how they feel.”
Source : Song: Country State of Mind
