Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Quote by Christopher Morley

Topics: Beauty Quotes, Grief Quotes, Pain Quotes

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all...

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all...

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not...

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not...

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours...

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours...

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up

We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of...

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of...

He who does not believe that God is above all is either a fool or...

He who does not believe that God is above all is either a fool or...

Only the sinner has a right to preach

Only the sinner has a right to preach

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper...

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper...

All students can learn.

All students can learn.

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really...

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really...

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your...

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your...

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

Success must be continually practiced or it will take wings and fly away.

Success must be continually practiced or it will take wings and fly away.