Blake Carpenter

“In every age, people are certain that only the things they have deemed valuable have true value.”
― Mark Kurlansky, Salt: A World History

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet, These are not done by jostling in the street.”
― L.B. Cowman, Streams in the Desert

“That sorrow and privation, the yoke borne in the youth, the soul’s enforced restraint, are all conducive to an iron tenacity and strength of purpose, and endurance or fortitude, which are the indispensable foundation and framework of a noble character.”
― L.B. Cowman, Streams in the Desert

“I cannot see the lovely things with my eyes, but my mind can see them all, and so I am joyful all the day long.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan