I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be the source from which will spring more deep thinking and sincere research than the study of astronomy.

Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and the crisp, fresh odor of unfolding leaves.

Is he well educated?" "Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important things each day.

Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing.

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