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

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

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.

Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?

The seasons run with swift feet.

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.

I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.