Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire.

Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.

The time for speaking seldom arrives, the time for being never departs.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness! It is so silly! Old age has nothing whatever to do with all that. The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs.

I say again, if I cannot draw a horse, I will not write THIS IS A HORSE under what I foolishly meant for one.

It's right to trust in God; but, if you don't stand to your halliards your craft'll miss stays, and your faith'll be blown out of the bolt-ropes in the turn of a marlinspike.