Stephen

“Joy and humor and empathy are all I need; beauty will survive the human race and find a way despite our brutish footprints.”
― Ezra Shales

“E Concrematio. Confirmatio--out ot the fire comes firmness, through stress we pass to strength.”
― Charles F. Binns

“His own deism allowed for a God who, having made the world, did not participate in the working out of its ends, whose management of human destiny only inherited in his allowing the patterns and values established by His will to work themselves out in human affairs. Lincoln's response to his own question is to change his tone and focus.”
― Fred Kaplan, Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer

“To show up the vine-clusters to the eye, so they can be seen, and yet leave enough foliage to prevent the sun scorching the fruit, without leaving too much, is a delicate work.”
― John B. Newman, Wa-wa-wanda: A Legend Of Old Orange