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The spark once transmitted may smoulder for generations under ashes, but the appointed time will come, and it will flare up to warm the world.
The Path of the King (1921)
Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God—she has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind. She is the channel of the eternal purpose of Heaven.
The Path of the King (1921)
Though nature is wasteful of material things, there is no waste of spirit. And then after long years there comes, unheralded and unlooked-for, the day of the Appointed Time...
The Path of the King (1921)
Truth's like a dollar-piece, it's got two sides, and both are wanted to make it good currency.
The Path of the King (1921)
Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.
The Path of the King (1921)
Every wife is like Mary the Blessed and may bear a saviour of mankind. The road is long, but the ways of Heaven are sure.
The Path of the King (1921)
I think a man cannot strive wholeheartedly with an enemy unless he have much in common with him, and as the strife goes on he gets liker.
The Path of the King (1921)
If the Lord sends us war, we have got to face it like men, but God forbid we should manufacture war, and use it as an escape from our domestic difficulties. You can't expect a blessing on that.
The Path of the King (1921)
We none of us know our ancestors beyond a little way. We all of us may have kings' blood in our veins.
The Path of the King (1921)
We look for romance in the well-cultivated garden-plots, and when it springs out of virgin soil we are surprised, though any fool might know it was the natural place for it.
The Path of the King (1921)
The law and the constitution are like a child's pants. They've got to be made wider and longer as the child grows so as to fit him. If they're kept too tight, he'll burst them; and if you're in a hurry and make them too big all at once, they'll trip him up.
The Path of the King (1921)
Generations follow, oblivious of the high beginnings, but there is that in the stock which is fated to endure. The sons and daughters blunder and sin and perish, but the race goes on, for there is a fierce stuff of life in it.
The Path of the King (1921)
I have known fellows to whom the earth was so full of little pleasures that after the worst clouts they rose like larks from a furrow. A wise philosophy—but I had none of it. I always saw the little pageant of man's life like a child's peep-show beside the dark wastes of eternity.
The Path of the King (1921)
The promise had not failed her. . . . She had won everything from life, for she had given the world a master. Words seemed to speak themselves in her ear. . . . "Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind."
The Path of the King (1921)