💬 Quotes

"I have always kept my memory green in the service of those who helped me, and those who hurt me."

"Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words: wait and hope."

"Whan that aprill with his shoures soote / The droghte of march hath perced to the roote..."

"The firste vertu, sone, if thou wilt lere, / Is to restreine and kepen wel thy tonge."

"Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte."

"And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche."

"Mordre wol out, that se we day by day."

"Lust and fals felicitee / Tellen bitwisse ernest and game."

"A rider of the purple sage! Lassiter—the name sent a thrill through her veins. He was the most dreaded gunman of the Utah-Nevada border, yet here he stood, gentle and chivalrous toward a helpless woman."

"Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord, and I will repay. But sometimes the Lord is slow, and men like me have to lend a hand."

"Jane Withersteen loved her church and her people, but above creed and law, she loved justice and humanity."

"Silence! Great purple spaces of silence, where a man might think his soul out clear of earthly dross."

"No hand can stay the turning of the wheel, Jane. The Mormons have built their kingdom here, but injustice is a rotten foundation."

"There are some deeds so black that even the desert sand cannot hide them forever."

"It is strange how closely allied are the extremes of the emotions. The transition from intense joy to profound sorrow is often so subtle as to be imperceptible."

"The past is not dead; it is not even past. In these old days, things were done which are not yet finished."

"There are mysteries in life which are beyond our ken, and which belong to a different order of things from that in which our daily lives are cast."

"Power, when it is absolute, knows no bounds of time or space; it reaches beyond the grave and mocks the decay of the mortal frame."

"A great danger shared often breeds a great union of souls, welding together disparate minds in the white heat of necessity."

"Science and the occult are often but different names for the same great truth, viewed from opposite sides of the impenetrable veil."