Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination reminds me that having a solid relationship takes work and dedication. And yet, when you succeed in crafting a friendship, you can rest in the comfort it provides.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.

Time, like money, is measured by our needs.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.

We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.