We are older by faith than by experience.

Do not read the newspapers.

It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.

For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.

Our thoughts are epochs in our lives; all else is but as a journal of the winds that blow while we are here.

I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.

The question is not what you look at – but how you look & whether you see.