Roderick Thorp

I don’t want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

I have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don’t use it, what’s the point of being in the room?

Not to be provok’d is best: But if mov’d, never correct till the Fume is spent; For every Stroke our Fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.

Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Shut your mouth, close your lips, and say something!

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

You’ll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

Courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.