J.W. Lord Quotes
Fear is an aid to the warrior. It is a small fire burning. It heats the muscles, making us stronger. Panic comes when the fire is out of control, consuming all courage and pride.
He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy.
Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!
Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
Learning is acquired by reading books; much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them.
The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils.
How beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent.
Ah, Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.
O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
The fact that mathematics does such a good job of describing the Universe is a mystery that we don't understand. And a debt that we will probably never be able to repay.
It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.
My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.
If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!
My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
