Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.

It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.

I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

Education is an asset no man can take away.