Quotes by Cid Ricketts Sumner

“It's just got me kind of wild, being turned loose amongst so many books.”

“I see him only with my heart.”

“Perhaps love is always a madness in which all else is unimportant, disregarded, so that one moves in the midst of it unmindful of danger or of the day of awakening.”

“We all have a living and a dying coming to us and in between there's bound to be grief to balance the joy. But the why and wherefore passeth human understanding. That's just the way the Lord's got it arranged.”

“I grew up believing that all was good. I suppose this was the natural consequence of a happy, untroubled childhood. Now, of course, I know that there is both good and evil, that each contains some of the other, and I have found them to exist for the most part in equal quantity, balanced like the two ends of a seesaw, man standing in the middle and able to throw his weight to one side or the other as he wills.”