Roderick Thorp

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true.

It always seems impossible until its done.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist the parachute.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

If you shoot at a king you must kill him.

There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves…

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake . . . by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.