“Except for our higher order of minds we are like the little moles under the earth carrying out blindly the work of digging, thinking our own dark passage-ways constitute all there is to the world.” ThinkingWorldWayMindLittlesEarthOrderDarkPerspectiveHigherPassagesDiggingMoles Book:Spring Came on Forever Source: Spring Came on Forever
“Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys ought to be hung. Others, less irritable, think that gently chloroforming them would seem more humane. A great many good-natured folks contend that incarceration for a couple of years would prove the best way to dispose of them.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayYearsBelieveSeemsBoysOughtCoupleProveFolksSignificantStatementsBest WayHungHumaneJuniorsElevenIncarceration Book:Mother Mason Source: Mother Mason
“I think that love is more like a light that you carry. At first childish happiness keeps it lighted and after that romance. Then motherhood lights it and then duty . . . and maybe after that sorrow. You wouldn't think that sorrow could be a light, would you, dearie? But it can. And then after that, service lights it. Yes. . . . I think that is what love is to a woman . . . a lantern in her hand.” ThinkingFirstsHandsLightRomanceLove IsDutySorrowMotherhoodLanterns Author:Bess Streeter Aldrich
