“ People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 1.4K
“ A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever. ”
- Henry Waldorf Francis- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach. ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Reputation is in itself only a farthing-candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
- 2.8K
“ There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
- 1.3K
- 1