Quotes by George W. Ogden

“There was a vast difference between knowledge and learning,””

“Tears had started to his eyes, and were coursing down his face, unheeded and unchecked. The torture of the past days and weeks, the challenge of his honor, the doubt of his sincerity; the rough assaults of the prosecuting attorney, the palpable unfriendliness of the people”

“I’ve been thinking over it, and I know that you were right. It’s inscrutable to me, Alice; I lack that God-given intuition that a woman has for such things. But I know that you were right, and time and events will justify you.” “You””

“It was a life in which a man’s soul would either shrink to nothing or expand until it became too large to find contentment within the horizon of such an existence. Some””

“It is remarkable how Kentuckians can maintain the breed of their horses through many generations, but so frequently fall short in the standard of their sons. Kentuckians are only an instance. The same might be said of kings. Not””

“Not so Alice Price. She was frank and friendly, as eager for the laughter of life as any healthy young woman should be, but she gave the young men kindly counsel when they became insistent or boresome, and sent them away. Shelbyville””

“They seemed contented and happy there, alone, with their fire in the chimney. Fire itself is a companion. It is like youth in a room. There was between them a feeling of comradeship and understanding which seldom lives where youth stands on one hand, age on the other.””

“Books by the hundred were there in the shelves about him.””

“He is sharp,” admitted the colonel, “but that’s all there is to him. He can wiggle and squirm like a snake; but he’s got no dignity, and no learnin’, and what he don’t know about law would make a book bigger than the biggest dictionary you ever saw.” “Land’s””

“You’ll need brains on your side as well as innocence, for innocence alone seldom gets a man off. And I’m sorry to tell you, son, that Jeff””

“If I could wipe some of this dust off,” said she. “Never mind that; we are all made of it,” the colonel said.””

“These bursts of anguish were not the sudden gusts of a pettish woman’s passion, but the settled sorrow of one who suffered without hope.””

“People are no gentler than their pursuits, no finer than the requirements of their lives.””