Warmly Lit Quotes & Sayings

It never was anything very splendid at the best," said he. He lifted the lamp from the table with a sort of abstraction, not remarking even my offer to take it from him, and led the way. He was on the verge of seventy, and looked his age; but it was a vigorous age, with no symptom of giving way. The circle of light from the lamp lit up his white hair and keen blue eyes and clear complexion; his forehead was like old ivory, his cheek warmly colored; an old man, yet a man in full strength. He was taller than I was, and still almost as strong. As he stood for a moment with the lamp in his hand, he looked like a tower in his great height and bulk. I reflected as I looked at him that I knew him intimately, more intimately than any other creature in the world, - I was familiar with every detail of his outward life; could it be that in reality I did not know him at all? * — Mrs. Oliphant

My ideal is that we all be economically interdependent. We should not be independent like millionaires, nor dependent like laborers. My ideal is that we all be interdependent. — Rose Pastor Stokes

We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones. — Walter Lippmann

Everything isn't a piece of cake. You say two plus two equals four, but do you know what happens when you add two piles of sand with two others, Tezee? You get one big pile of sand, not four!" - Aley — Shriya Sekhsaria

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him. — Charles Caleb Colton

Pop once said it's a good thing we don't know what's around the corner. I didn't understand what he meant then, but I do now. It's better to wish than to know. — Ann M. Martin