Quotes from blackwood algernon ii

The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?

The acquirement of wealth demanded his entire strength, and all lighter considerations he had consistently refused to recognize, until he thought them dead.

The elements are always the true immortals.

Unless the mind can fix the reality of an event in the actual instant of its happening, judgment soon dwindles into a confusion between memory and argument.

All dreams are but a single dream.

This feeble attempt at self-deception only makes the truth harder when you're forced to meet it.

Hate means strife, and the two together weave the robe that terror wears.

For prudence is of the mind, but desire is of the soul, and while his brain of to-day whispered wariness, voices in his heart of long ago shouted commands that he knew he must obey with joy.

One wakes up happy in the morning and sees only the bright side of things. Hope is active, and one has new courage somehow.

Death, according to one's belief, means either annihilation or release from the limitations of the senses, but it involves no change of character.

It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed.