As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject, but a life...Tolerance and justice, fearlessness and pride, reverence and pity, are learned in a course on long… — William Alexander Percy Copy Share Image
“To the mind that could dream and shape our beaconed universe, what is injustice to us may be unfathomable tenderness, and our horror only… — William Alexander Percy Copy Share Image
It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what counts between… — William Alexander Percy Copy Share Image
I suspect anyway that the important things we learn we never remember because they become a part of us, we absorb them...we don't absorb… — William Alexander Percy Copy Share Image
With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable… — William Alexander Percy Copy Share Image
I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed. The silken sound of whirled infinity… — William Alexander Percy Copy Share Image
And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France? — William Alexander Percy Copy Share Image
As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject, but a… — William Alexander Percy Copy Share Image
