Quoth the Ocean, "Dawn! O fairest, clearest, Touch me with thy golden fingers bland; For I have no smile till thou appearest For the lovely land.

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.

Suicide is a hasty unresolved death that slowly kills those close-by day by day.

Whether morality is moral is an open question.

Always present yourself as a woman who expects to succeed.

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

Prayer is the breath, the watchword, the comfort, the strength, the honor of a Christian.

The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs.

Nothing's lost forever.