Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance

I've never been one for religion, but yet I've never been what ye could call an unbeliever. What I say is, nothin' don't seem impossible once you've clapped eyes on a whale.

Because of course she had known she must go. She always did the thing because in obedience lay the integrity that God asked of her. If anyone had asked her what she meant by integrity she would not have been able to tell them but she had seen it once like a picture in her mind, a root going down into the earth and drinking deeply there. No one was really alive without that root.

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

In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.

All we are asked to bear we can bear.

There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.