One cannot love a world. It is too large. But a fleck of ground so far as his eye can see, one may hold precious above all.

Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.

The body's ills are the least of ills, for they end only in death, which is but a little thing. But if the spirit dies, then all is lost.

Could distance in one direction differ from distance in another? It's always faster coming home.

Bad luck was a fact of life and one dealt with it or not.Good luck, on the other hand, was something one created.

You can't be a man and a coward at the same time.

When the flow of a river is blocked, it overflows or breaks the barriers. Similarly, our emotions can get out of control if their expression is blocked.

Every walk should offer some knotty problem for the children to think out-"Why does that leaf float on the water, and this pebble sink?" and so on.

Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.

Noble fatherhood gives us a glimpse of the divine attributes of our Father in Heaven.

It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce another like it.

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

A chaplet of leaves crowns the victor.