Quotes from Clarence Day

Aside from a few odd words in Hebrew, I took it completely for granted that God had never spoken anything but the most dignified English.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

If your parents didn't have any children, there is a good chance that you won't have any.

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old and die out, and after an era of darkness new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead.

1059The egg it is the source of it all. 'Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was caught, The harlot's lip, the maiden's leg, They each and all came from an egg.

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

Creatures whose main spring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of fact far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.