Lanterns on the Levee Quotes

“To the mind that could dream and shape our beaconed universe, what is injustice to us may be unfathomable tenderness, and our horror only loveliness misunderstood.”
― William Alexander Percy, Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son

“The good die when they should live, the evil live when they should die; heroes perish and cowards escape; noble efforts do not succeed because they are noble, and wickedness is consumed in its own nature. Looking at truth is not at first a heartening experience--it becomes so, if at all, only with time, with infinite patience, and with the luck of a little personal happiness. ― William Alexander Percy, Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son (‎ LSU Press; Reprint edition, October 1, 2006)”
― William Alexander Percy, Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son

“The good die when they should live, the evil live when they should die; heroes perish and cowards escape; noble efforts do not succeed because they are noble, and wickedness is consumed in its own nature. Looking at truth is not at first a heartening experience--it becomes so, if at all, only with time, with infinite patience, and with the luck of a little personal happiness.”
― William Alexander Percy, Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son