Morley
Morley
christian anxiety bears
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
students
All students can learn.
men violence faults
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
literature sinner
Only the sinner has the right to preach.
book library may
They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.
men thinking today
It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.
decision choices finding-yourself
Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves, as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.
life prayer war
My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.
book helping virtue
What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.
women impossible moments
How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.
women fifty novelty
Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
friendship fashion growing-up
Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
truth facts prejudice
Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.
thinking avid humanity
Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse.