My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.
But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we had lost to the powers of darkness, we had at least shown one Federal Judge what the right path would have been.
People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness.
Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
We made it known that we were trying to show the reality of France. People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness.
Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.