The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.

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.

The one thing that we need to escape is our minds, but our minds are the one thing that we cannot escape from.

How far does life take us? I don't see anything at the end.

May the Lord be your redeemer.

Wit penetrates

When the fight begins within himself a man's worth something.

If one did not have at least a little luck, one would never survive childhood. But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life.

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England.

I'm very wary of large groups of people getting together and trying to believe the same thing. It never seems to end well, whether it's political or religious or whatever.

I would [call myself a feminist], yes, I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go still.