A Corn of Wheat Quotes

“If I am ever married," she said emphatically, "I shall treat my boys just like the girls. It's horrid. You have brought him up -- and heaps of women do the same -- to imagine that he is of far more importance than we are. How can you expect men to treat women properly if that idea is put into their heads before they can talk -- oh, it's before they are born; it's mixed up with their blood.”
― E.H. Young, A Corn of Wheat

“And the stars came out. One by one that bright assemblage gathered in the sky, twinkling their messages to each other, comparing in light mood their impressions of the earth, which looked to them so piteously, so thankfully, its soul straining upwards to their heights. And while they winked mischievously at one another, they looked down and smiled indulgently. They were so old and loving, had seen so many generations of men, had heard over and over again the same heart-beats and sobs and laughter; there was no mistery they did not know, there was no happiness they had not shared. Nothing was new to them: the cry in the night; the gaze of upturned eyes, through which there looked the wildness or the bewilderment of the soul; the bitter anguish of the very young -- with these they were familiar. And custom had taught them but one comment on these things: "They will be better in the morning" -- the morning which they themselves would not see for the brightness of the sun. They knew themselves for kindly sceptics, but men, looking at them in the dark, believed them to be possessed of illimitable wisdom and took comfort, so that the stars tried to nudge each other, and then they twinkled more merrily than ever, and men were glad, after all, to live. And to all, sooner or later, comes the morning, bringing good things.”
― E.H. Young, A Corn of Wheat