Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to Society. But it sometimes happens that I cannot easily shake off the village. The thought of some work will run in my head and I am not where my body is - I am out of my senses. In my walks I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.

There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends.

As for health, consider yourself well.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.