Walter Van Tilburg Clark Quotes & Sayings

Places, like people, have their beginnings and have also their endings. — Walter Van Tilburg Clark

That hatred of the railroad was Winder's only original notion, and when he got mad that always came in some way. Everything else was what he'd heard somebody, or most everybody, say, only he always got angry enough to make it sound like a conviction. — Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Is it really so important to be different? — Walter Van Tilburg Clark

but you can feel awful guilty about nothing when the men you're with don't trust you. — Walter Van Tilburg Clark

I failed, he said, I got talking my ideas. It's my greatest failing. — Walter Van Tilburg Clark

He proved that it was equally true if the disregard was by a ruler or by a people. "It spreads like a disease," he said. "And it's infinitely more deadly when the law is disregarded by men pretending to act for justice than when it's simply inefficient, or even when its elected administrator's are crooked. — Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Then our crime's worse than a murderer's. His act puts him outside the law, but keeps the law intact. Ours would weaken the law. — Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Helen, who was wild to be doing, and who had no patience for the limitation of words, or of thoughts, or even of the body, though she trusted the body most. — Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Most men are more afraid of being thought cowards than of anything else, and a lot more afraid of being thought physical cowards than moral ones. — Walter Van Tilburg Clark

We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling. — Walter Van Tilburg Clark

True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands of years to develop, and it is the greatest, the most distinguishing quality which has developed with mankind ... If we can touch God at all, where do we touch him save in the conscience? And what is the conscience of any man save his little fragment of the conscience of all men in all time? — Walter Van Tilburg Clark