a man can break God's laws and be forgiven. That's what they teach us. But when he breaks Nature's laws, there's no forgiveness - and there's no escape. Sooner or later he pays the penalty, or his children pay it - or his children's children. It doesn't matter much. It must be paid.

A false vision was better than none.

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.

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

Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze.

It's remarkable - most remarkable, the way these people manage, from time to time, a tragedy or a near-tragedy to break the even tenor of their ways,' said Mr. Tingley, in a tone of half-humorous superiority, by which he considered that he distinguished himself, subtly and inoffensively, from 'these people.

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