it was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer.

But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it.

The lush green of the fields became a rich gold that swayed sturdily under the wind and fell at last before the hands of the reapers.

I don't see as it matters much how well you mean if it's harm you're doin'.

By mid-morning a rain as fine as silk spills was weaving over the lake.

A false vision was better than none.

Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!

There was nothing so real on the prairie as winter, nothing so memorable.

There is too much doing - too little being! When we begin to get strenuous, life begins to grow intolerable.

Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference.

The snow again. White, white net of beauty, net of dream, trapping the earth, trapping the helpless heart of life.

If you stand firm in the light, you can never be diminish by the doom of darkness.

Time should be assessed as seconds, minutes and hours so as to be maximized effectively

Subtle difference between a hero and an opportunist is not where you stand, but its timing. Standing up against injustice when it suits is convenience, not heroism

I do try to live a normal life.

The Apologizer Bunny keeps going and going and going.

Donald Trump can improve and get better as he goes along, and I think he will.

I'm just being myself. I'm not a very complex guy; I'm not a very studious, crazy intellectual guy. I'm just a guy.

Humility is the softening shadow before the stature of Excellence, And lieth lowly on the ground, beloved and lovely as the violet.

Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth." -Taleswapper

If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.