Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

Caricature is rough truth.

Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.

Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried, Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.

We are betrayed by what is false within

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

The debts we owe ourselves are the hardest to pay.

If you like to live an abundant life, express joy and gratitude for what you have.

My heart's in the Highlands my heart is not here My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.

Nature inspires me because it's so peaceful. It makes me have an inward experience. It makes me reflective and nostalgic.

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

Except when it comes to Mom. She is, and always has been, the driving force in this family. And sometimes that means driving us head-on, no possible change of course, into a wall.

When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint - understand what he is trying to do - nine times out of ten he is trying to do right.

We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.

All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory.

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

He on whom heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it.