01c. 1944 ADO, blackberry tart, with berries as big as your thumb, purple and black, and thick with juice, and a crust to endear them that will go to cream in your mouth, and both passing down with such a taste that will make you close your eyes and wish you might live for ever in the wideness of that rich moment.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
02c. 1944 ADYou must realize...that the men of the Valley have built their houses and brought up their families without help from others, without a word from the Government. Their lives have been ordered from birth by the Bible. From it they took their instructions. They had no other guidance, and no other law. If it has produced hypocrites and pharisees, the fault is in the human race. We are not all angels. Our fathers upheld good conduct and rightful dealing by strictness, but it is in Man Adam to be slippery, and many are as slimy as the adder. The wonder is to me that the men of the Valley are as they are, and not barbarians at all.I was sorry for Meillyn Lewis, too. But that session of the deacons was helpful as a preventative. It was cruel, but it is more cruel to allow misconduct to flourish without check.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
05c. 1944 ADIt hurt to think that a boy would not have him at his value of himself.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
06c. 1944 ADDear little house that I have lived in, there is happiness you have seen, even before I was born. In you is my life, and all the people I have loved are a part of you, so to go out of you, and leave you, is to leave myself.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
07c. 1944 ADThough neither happiness nor respect are worth anything, because unless both are coming from the truest motives, they are simply deceits. A successful man earns the respect of the world never mind what is the state of his mind, or his manner of earning. So what is the good of such respect, and how happy will such a man be in himself? And if he is what passes for happy, such a state is lower than the self-content of the meanest animal.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
08c. 1944 ADThat is the trouble...You are a crowd of bits of boys all in the thing for what you will get. Demands, you call them. Well, I am against demands of any kind. You cannot reason with demand, and where there is no reason, there is no sense. As for your support, whatever you call it, some long word, what is the use of it?Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
09c. 1944 ADWomen have their own braveries, their own mighty courageousness that is of woman, and not to be compared with the courage shown by man.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
10c. 1944 ADHard it is to suffer through stupid people. They make you feel sorry for them, and if your sorrow is as great as your hurt, you will allow them to go free of punishment, for their eyes are the eyes of dogs that have done wrong and know it, and are afraid.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
11c. 1944 ADBut even of him I can think of with sorrow, now at this moment.Those times, those people...have gone. How can there be fury felt for things that are gone to dust.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
13c. 1944 ADThe man who goes to the top is the man who has something to say and says it when circumstances warrant. Men who keep silent underdressed are moral cowards.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
14c. 1944 ADThere is no room for pride in any man. There is no room for unkindness. There is no room for wit at the expense of others. All men are born the same, and equal. As you saw to-day, so come the Captains and the Kings and the Tinkers and the Tailors.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
16c. 1944 ADThen sense. Use your sense. Not all of us are born for greatness, but all of us have sense. Make use of it. Think. Think long and well.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
17c. 1944 ADWhy is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
18c. 1944 ADFor it is discomfort's own essence to be near a man and to feel him in torture of misery, to feel with him the very pain of the misery, and yet to be unable to help.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
20c. 1944 ADBut I was born in the image of God, a man, a creator, with power of life and death, a father, blessed with the gift of the seed of Adam, a sower of seed, to bring forth generations of new life.This I was, and envying a kettle.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
21c. 1944 ADThe beauty and music...It is a call...And some are not strong.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
22c. 1944 ADI saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
23c. 1944 ADLet all things be done in order, with right and decency. Those things are worth a man's life or two. Life without would be a hell, indeed.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
24c. 1944 ADBefore you are much older...you will have policemen here to stay. A magistrate will be next. Then perhaps even a jail. And the counterparts of those things are hunger and want, and misery and idleness. The night is coming. Watch and pray.Richard Llewellyn / quote ↗
