The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.

— Richard Llewellyn

The world was created for Mankind, not for some mankind.

— Richard Llewellyn

Though neither happiness nor respect are worth anything, because unless both are coming from the truest motives, they are simply deceits. A successful man earns the respect of the world never mind what is the state of his mind, or his manner of earning. So what is the good of such respect, and how happy will such a man be in himself? And if he is what passes for happy, such a state is lower than the self-content of the meanest animal.

— Richard Llewellyn

What is ordinary to you maybe a desert of woeful newness to another.

— Richard Llewellyn

Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.

— Richard Llewellyn

Women have their own breweries, their own mighty courageousness that is of woman, and not to be compared with the courage shown by man.

— Richard Llewellyn

Worry, my son?... I am not worried now, and I never have or will. You must learn to tell worry from thought, and thought from prayer. Sometimes a light will go from your life...and your life becomes a prayer, till you are strong enough to stand under the weight of your own thought again.

— Richard Llewellyn

Yet Conscience is a nobleman, the best in us, and a friend.

— Richard Llewellyn

You know your Bible too well and life too little.

— Richard Llewellyn

You must learn to tell worry from thought and thought from prayer. Sometimes a light will go from your life, and a thought becomes a prayer til you are strong enough to stand under the weight of your own thought again.

— Richard Llewellyn