ZZ Ward Quotes
Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.
Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.
That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.
Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.
The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.
The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.
The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and to do.
A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.
Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.
Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.
The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.
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The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.
Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.
Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.
Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.
Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.
What could make me love my fellow Christian better than to see that God loves us all as we were all one soul?
Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are.
It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.
When the old creeds are threadbare, and worn through, And all too narrow for the broadening soul, Give me the fine, firm texture of the new, Fair, beautiful and whole!
Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.
It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.
Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.
Everything I do is for my mom. Every time I step out there and try to get better, it's for her.
It was right then and there that she'd realized there was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once reached, got you miraculously taken out of the distress pool.
You said you wanted to remember something.' His palms slid up to the top of her thighs and squeezed. 'So lie back and let me do my thing.' -Issac Rothe, Crave
As they went by Assail, the male was watching them. "Jesus, he really is blind" Wrath pulled up short and unsheathed his dagger, pointed it directly into the guys face. "But my hearing is just fine
