The commonwealth of learning is not at this time without master-builders, whose mighty designs in advancing the sciences, will lea...ve lasting monuments to the admiration of posterity; but every one must not hope to be a Boyle, or a Sydenham; and in an age that produces such masters as the great Huygenius, and the incomparable Mr. Newton, with some others of that strain; it is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Logic, reason, disease, and the menace of death, these things meant nothing at all to us. We were committed to other values by whi...ch the poet has always lived in defiance of all that society demanded of him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes to ...hurt; but who would return to smallness?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I f...elt without roots, like a man without a country ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Service ... is love in action, love "made flesh"; service is the body, the incarnation of love. Love is the impetus, service the a...ct, and creativity the result with many by-products.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we lose love, we lose also our identification with the universe and with eternal values--an identification which alone makes ...it possible for us to lay our lives on the altar for what we believe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... most Southerners of my parents' era were raised to feel that it wasn't respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Sout...herners had lost everything in defense of the South, and sufficient time hadn't elapsed for respectable rebuilding of financial security in a war- impoverished region.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The importance of a lost romantic vision should not be underestimated. In such a vision is power as well as joy. In it is meaning.... Life is flat, barren, zestless, if one can find one's lost vision nowhere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man's real and deep feelings are surely those which he acts upon when challenged, not those which, mellow-eyed and soft-voiced, ...he spouts in easy times.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »