People newly emerged from obscurity generally launch out into indiscriminate display.

O fateful flower beside the rill- The Daffodil, the daffodil!

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.

Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Crowds of bees are giddy with clover Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet, Crowds of larks at their matins hang over, Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.

Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.

I tried to gather all the pieces… I picked each one and fixed them so perfectly. No one could say that I was broken once but they saw my hands, lacerated by the splinters of my heart…

There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.

All resources in your possession is an opportunity for service.

Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are.

The most notable fact that culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits. The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities.

Given the religious nature and the emotional power of Leftist values, Jews and Christians on the Left often derive their values from the Left more than from their religion.

Being a human means waking up in this world, where we all have to work and slog to put food on the table.

It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life.

Dimitri seemed like the kind of guy you could throw into the wilderness and he would survive off anything.

The students wanted to speak to the government, and the police answered with bullets.