JOY AND SORROW

SLOAN –“I always think of shade as being full of light. That is why I like to use the word shade rather than light and shadow Shade seems to play over the thing, envelop it, better define it, while shadow seems to fall on the thing and stain the surface with darks.”     

JOHN SMITH –“Reason in a good man sits in the throne, and governs all the powers of his soul in a sweet harmony and  agreement with itself: whereas wicked men live only being led up and down by the foolish fires of their own sensual apprehensions. In wicked men there is a democracy of wild lusts and passions, which violently hurry the soul up and down with restless motions.”

JOHN SMITH –“The true metaphysical and contemplative man, who running and shooting up above his own logical or self-rational life, pierceth into the highest life: such a one, who by universal love and holy affection abstracting himself from himself, endeavours the nearest union with the divine essence that may be.”

JOHN STEINBECK –“A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well or ill?”   

JOHN STEINBECK –“How will our children know who they are if I they don’t know where they came from?”      

JOHN STEINBECK –“It is the nature of a man as he grows older to protect against change, particularly change for the better.”

JOHN STEINBECK –“When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the

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