It lies around us like a cloud— A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
The Other World.
I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.
Uncle Tom's Cabin.
I's wicked I is. I's mighty wicked; anyhow I can't help it.
Uncle Tom's Cabin.
In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
There is more done with pens than with swords.
This is very similar in theme to "Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword." by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
