The burning soul, the burden'd mind, In books alone companions find.

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man.

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

You have to be in your middle thirties before you have anything worth saying.

I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.

I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscrapers.

The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long And there follows a mist and a weeping rain And life is never the same again

I am a bit odd. I am somewhat evangelical. But I am not crazy.

I really don't want to hurt others for my benefit.

The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.

I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.