Category: Quote of the Day

What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the specter which had haunted my midnight pillow. Discuss

Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death…She could not say, “I’m glad to go,” for life was very sweet for her. She could only sob out, “I try to be willing.” Discuss

We called him Tortoise because he taught us. Discuss

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness. Discuss

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them. Discuss

Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole. Discuss

The soldier who executes what his captain orders does no less than the captain himself who gives the order. Discuss

The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now. Discuss

My last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as I write. Discuss

All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis. Discuss