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

Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.

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

How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.

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!

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