The High Place Quotes

“To submit is the great lesson. I too was once a dreamer: and in dreams there are lessons. But to submit, without dreaming any more, is the great lesson; to submit, without either understanding or repining, and without demanding of life too much of beauty or of holiness, and without shirking the fact that this universe is under no least bond ever to grant us, upon either side of the grave, our desires. To do that, my son, does not satisfy and probably will not ever satisfy a Puysange. But to do that is wisdom.”
― James Branch Cabell, The High Place

“We enter into no illegal turpitude until rather careful reflection has assured us of its expediency.”
― James Branch Cabell, The High Place