Make no more giants, God!But elevate the race at once!

My sun sets to rise again.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.

Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world's life.

Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it. Polly B. Berends

If a novel's salient aim is virtue, I want to throw it against the wall.

Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.

Because I can’t live without Della. I don’t want to. She’s the reason I get up in the mornings - Woods

Heaven must be in me before I can be in heaven.

It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.

Only those live who do good.

The term "intellectual" is used conventionally to refer to people who happen to have unusual opportunities in this regard, and as always, opportunity confers moral responsibility.

Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.

My dad once told me: no matter what anyone says or writes, really, none of those people have to hit your four- foot putt.You have to go do it yourself.