Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
It was well remarked by an intelligent old farmer, ‘I would rather be taxed for the education of the boy, than the ignorance of the man. For one or the other I am compelled to pay.’ — Southern Cultivator, January 1848
John asked Clara To take A walk with him And pick flowers. But Clara’s brother Came along And so They picked flowers. — North Carolina Boll Weevil, 1929
"Good use of photography can give even poverty with all its rags, filth and vermin a measure of divineness rarely noticeable in real life." ~ Nelson Mandela from a letter to Zindzi Mandela, written on Robben Island, 27 January 1980