Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers.

I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth.

The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.

As I stand over the insect crawling amid the pine needles on the forest floor, and endeavoring to conceal itself from my sight, and ask myself why it will cherish those humble thoughts, and hide its head from me who might, perhaps, be its benefactor, and impart to its race some cheering information, I am reminded of the greater Benefactor and Intelligence that stands over me the human insect.

Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.