“The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction. * * * A name "fast anchored in the deep abyss of time" is like a star twinkling in the firmament, cold, silent, distant, but eternal and sublime; and our transmitting one to posterity is as if we should contemplate our translation to the skies.” IfsShouldMindFeelingsRealityNamesStarsSkyColdFameEternalSilentDelicateContemplatingSolitarySublimeAbyssAbstractionTranslationsPosterityFirmamentTwinkling Author:William Hazlitt
“The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.” ShouldMindHeardSilentDefencePerversion Book:A Time to Speak: The Selected Prose of Archibald MacLeish Source: A Time to Speak: The Selected Prose of Archibald MacLeish
“About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.” ShouldChurchSilentApostlesApostle Paul Author:Teresa of Avila