There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

You know you are changing when you are moving towards something bigger than yourself. Your Life!

If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

A church without a missions or a mission without the church are both contradictions. Such things do exist, but only as pseudostructures

She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.

I've been very active in Missouri.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.

All forms are transitory, that is why all religions say, "God has no form".

The Lord has shown me that I can do anything, but that He has said, apart from Me ye can do nothing. So it comes to this, that everything I have done, and can still do apart from Him is nothing!

I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that my children should be bred up in it too.