Clarence Day Quotes
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The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.
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The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still.
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Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.
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As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
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Reason is the servant of instinct.
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The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.
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A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
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A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness.
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Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.
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Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.
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Babies are unreasonable; they expect far too much of existence. Each new generation that comes takes one look at the world and thinks wildly, "Is this all they've done to it?" and bursts into tears.
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Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.
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If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours.
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If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.
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The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old and die out, and after an era new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the heart of men centuries dead.
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This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.
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The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.
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There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
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The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.