Morley
Morley
book library may
They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.
friendship fashion growing-up
Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
women fifty novelty
Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
women impossible moments
How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.
book helping virtue
What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.
dog men puppy
The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.
decision choices finding-yourself
Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves, as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.
truth facts prejudice
Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.
thinking avid humanity
Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse.
good-night wish watches
The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds; They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads; They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight, And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!
running baby gratitude
Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world - old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little creature that has all its course to run, the heart flies back in yearning and gratitude to those who felt just so toward one's self. Then for the first time one understands the homely succession of sacrifices and pains by which life is transmitted and fostered down the stumbling generations of men.
political slumps commodity
Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.
british-statesman business great life
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
british-statesman man
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.