Ruth E. Renkl

Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won’t sit upon a cold stove lid, either.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey’d.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.

One farmer says to me, ‘You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;’ and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one… characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

I’ve learned that from my husband, that sort of, you know, ability to not get too high or too low with changes and bumps in the road.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.