Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.

There's much that goes to the makin' of a man or woman into somethin' better than a brute beast, but there's three things in chief, an' they're the places where life sets us down, an' the folks life knocks us up against, an' -- not the things ye get, but the things ye don't get.

All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.

autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.

What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.

Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a dead thing into the earth; but when it puts forth leaves and flowers next spring you see your mistake.

cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.