“Often I have found that the one thing that can save is the thing which appears most to threaten ... one has to go down into what one most fears and in that process ... comes a saving flicker of light and energy that, even if it does not produce the courage of a hero, at any rate enables a trembling mortal to take one step further.” IfsDoeLightFoundEnergyProcessStepsOne ThingProduceHeroRateSavingMortalsTremblingFlicker Book:Feather Fall: An Anthology Source: Feather Fall: An Anthology
“The different steps and degrees of education may be compared to the artificer's operations upon marble; it is one thing to dig it out of the quarry, and another to square it, to give it gloss and lustre, call forth every beautiful spot and vein, shape it into a column, or animate it into a statue.” GivingMayDifferentBeautifulEducationStepsOne ThingShapesDegreesSpotsOperationsSquaresVeinsStatuesColumnsMarbleVery BeautifulGlossQuarry Book:The poems and letters of Thomas Gray, with memoirs of his life and writings by W. Mason Source: The poems and letters of Thomas Gray, with memoirs of his life and writings by W. Mason
“There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.” StepsOne ThingConstantRomeSublimeShiftingPathetic Author:Paolo Sorrentino