Emotions and Feelings

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

One man in a thousand, Solomon says,

If blood be the price of admiralty,

If blood be the price of admiralty,

Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne,

You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din!

If you can keep your head when all about you

God help us, for we knew the worst too young!

Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree,

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land … So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man.

If a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that ‘w-a-t-e-r’ meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free! The Story of My Life (1902) ch. 4

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

Then on the shore

When I behold, upon the night’s starred face

Then felt I like some watcher of the skies

Was it a vision, or a waking dream?

Forlorn! the very word is like a bell

Forlorn! the very word is like a bell

Away! away! for I will fly to thee,