Jones Very Quotes

"From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet."
- Jones Very
(Related: Soul, Enemy, Mystery, Wrestling)

"Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next."
- Jones Very
(Related: World)

"Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul."
- Jones Very
(Related: Soul, Thought, Purpose, Feeling, Question, Rest)

"These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but they tell us not why it flows onward and will ever flow."
- Jones Very
(Related: History, Direction, Giving, Will)

"We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek."
- Jones Very
(Related: Greatness, Thoughts, Spirit)