“The temperance of [a] response to raking criticism, the readiness to seize what was just in it and to throw the husks away without undue friction or resentment or los of friendship—these show a kind of character which if it became general could change the course of human affairs.”— Brand Blanshard, amazon.comTagged: Life, Temperance, Criticism, resentment, Friction
“Unique in his inwardness, in the rigor of his self-scrutiny and of his standards, in his humility, in what Christians would call ‘the hunger and thirst after righteousness.'”— Brand Blandshard, amazon.comTagged: Life