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There are queer things, evil things, out yonder, and there are bones of white men bleaching in the sun who have sought to know too much. Curiosity doesn't pay yonder.

("The Great White Moth")


Frederick Merrick White

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FREDERICK DOUGLASS Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying,
If I am dead, as dead I well may be,
You'...
FREDERICK WEATHERLY The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost bey...
FREDERICK SODDY If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imag...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
FREDERICK WILCOX We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now ...
FREDERICK TILNEY The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny.
FREDERICK SPEAKMAN There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is not to be true to the best we k...
FREDERICK FARRAR Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever h...
FREDERICK BAILES Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, beari...
FREDERICK BUECHNER You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the...
FREDERICK WISEMAN The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst
FREDERICK BUECHNER Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any peop...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect
FREDERICK SAUNDERS In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not s...
FREDERICK FARRAR Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.
FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever fail...
FREDERICK FARRAR There'll be spring every year without you. England still will be here without you.

FREDERICK LOEWE The time is ripe for looking back over the day, the week, the year, and trying to figure out where w...
FREDERICK BUECHNER We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but ra...
FREDERICK KOENIG Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They wash...
FREDERICK TENNYSON When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if t...
PAULINE FREDERICK When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have lef...
FREDERICK BUECHNER It goes back to the Greeks. Plato was an idealist, Aristotle was a materialist.
JENNIFER FREDERICK Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world
FREDERICK SAUNDERS Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution tow...
FREDERICK SANGER We cannot be certain right now how the events of last week will ultimately impact the U.S. and globa...
FREDERICK SMITH I was so despondent, wondering what I am going to do, and then the minister herself called.
FREDERICK SMITH