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“Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.”
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“For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the soul with a solemn joy. Face to face with Nature on the vast hills at eventide, who does not feel himself near to the Unseen?”
Source : William Henry Hudson (2010). “The Purple Land: Being One Richard Lamb's Adventures in the Banda Oriental, in South America, as Told by Himself”, p.235, The Floating Press
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“Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.”
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“For a moment, I believe, there was a stillness. A shocking realization by all things - beetles, dormice, the spiders spinning their webs in the moonlight, even the hot metal of the tracks and the wind in the trees - that Death had just shrieked past like a stinking black eagle and made off with a remarkable man.”
Source : Alexander Masters (2006). “Stuart: A Life Backwards”, Random House Digital, Inc.
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“Making the majors is not as hard as staying there, staying interested day after day. It's like being married. The hardest part is to stay married.”
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“A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.”
Source : "The Masses" Magazine, September 1917.
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“When liberals clamor for 'diversity,' they don't necessarily mean they are ready to tolerate actual disagreement.”
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“We call the heroes of the past heroes of production.We feel entitled to call the present day magazine heroes 'idols ofconsumption'.Indeed, almosteveryoneofthem is directly, or indirectly, related to the sphere of leisure time.”
