Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things grow by God's Law out of the smallest. But to live your life you must discipline it. You must not fritter it away in "fair purpose, erring act, inconstant will" but make your thoughts, your acts, all work to the same end and that end, not self but God. That is what we call character.

Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.

Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?

I use the word nursing for want of a better.