Emotions and Feelings

It isn’t for the moment you are struck that you need courage but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.

Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.

Courage has need of reason, but it is not reason’s child; it springs from deeper strata.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

This was really a compliment to be pleased with— a nice little handsome pat of butter made up by a neat-handed . . . dairy-maid instead of the grease fit only for cartwheels which one is dosed with by the pound.

There is no pleasure to me without communication; there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind but I grieve that I have no one to tell it to.

There is no pleasure to me without communication; there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind but I grieve that I have no one to tell it to.

The hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

But childhood, prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

Nobody knows what the cause is, Though some pretend they do; It’s like some hidden assassin Waiting to strike at you.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the highest flights of their art.

I am never bored anywhere; being bored is an insult to oneself.

By bedside and easy chair, books promise a cozy, swift, and silent release from this world into another, with no current involved but the free and scarcely detectable crackle of brain cells.

as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.

The spirituals and the blues were not created out of sweet deceit. Spirituals and blues contain sublimated bitterness and humility, pathos and bewilderment.

The spirituals and the blues were not created out of sweet deceit. Spirituals and blues contain sublimated bitterness and humility, pathos and bewilderment.