Thomas Starr King Quotes & Sayings

What a privilege it is to be an American! — Thomas Starr King

The oak roars when a high wind wrestles with it; the beech shrieks; the elm sends forth a long, deep groan; the ash pours out moans of thrilling anguish. — Thomas Starr King

The Universalists believe
that God is too good to damn [humanity],
while the Unitarians believe
that [humanity] is too good to be damned by God. — Thomas Starr King

I know it is all right. I wish I could make you feel so, I wish I could describe my feelings. — Thomas Starr King

Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius. — Thomas Starr King

Do not weep for me. — Thomas Starr King

Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe. — Thomas Starr King

Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton. — Thomas Starr King

By cultivating an interest in a few good books which contain the result of the toil or the quintessence of the genius of some of the most gifted thinkers of the world, we need not live on the marsh and in the mists. The slopes and ridges invite us. — Thomas Starr King

I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder. — Thomas Starr King

Be sure of the foundation of your life. Know why you live as you do. Be ready to give a reason for it. Do not, in such a matter as life, build an opinion or custom on what you guess is true. Make it a matter of certainty and science. — Thomas Starr King

What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other. — Thomas Starr King

It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully. — Thomas Starr King

The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer. — Thomas Starr King

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air. — Thomas Starr King

Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet, and help us by its connections to read some statement or statute applicable to the conscious world. — Thomas Starr King

A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste, when it lifts him above mere appetite for wildness, ruggedness, and the feeling of mass and precipitous elevation, into a perception and love of the refined grandeur, the chaste sublimity, the airy majesty overlaid with tender and polished bloom, in which the landscape splendor of a noble mountain lies. — Thomas Starr King

Nature never writes a blind hand. — Thomas Starr King