William Russell Quotes

You cannot evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.

In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.

Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered.

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed.

No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development.

A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other.

Whiskey: a torchligh procession marching down your throat.

We are tired who follow after fantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter stain our hearts with richest dyes.

Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.

We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.

Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.

Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate.