There never was a moment in my life, when I felt so in the Presence, as I do now. I feel as if the Almighty were so real, and so near, that I could reach out and touch Him, as I could this wonderful work of His, if I dared. I feel like saying to Him: 'To the extent of my brain power I realize Your presence, and all it is in me to comprehend of Your power. Help me to learn, even this late, the lessons of Your wonderful creations. Help me to unshackle and expand my soul to the fullest realization of Your wonders. Almighty God, make me bigger, make me broader!

we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.

It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.

no one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.

Sometimes it seems to me that the more we get hurt in this world the decenter it makes us.

The Cardinal ... It was as if a pulsing heart of flame passed by when he came winging through the orchard.