The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Hesitation and the fear of being judged kills more relationships than misunderstanding and arguments.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

By December an elastic skin of ice reached out hundreds of miles into the sea, rolling with every wave.

She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.

Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.

At first you can stand the spotlight in your eyes. Then it blinds you. Others can see you, but you cannot see them.

It is hard to notice age in those who dream.

There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing.

Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.

The human brain is the most complex mass of protoplasm on earth-perhaps even in our galaxy.