Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life; my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

the matrimonial shoe pinches me.

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.

Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped.

I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.