Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the news transpire,--thinnerthan the paper on which it is printed,--then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.

Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.

Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.

Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes, a man of hope and of the future tense, for not only the obstinate is willed, but far more the constant and persevering. The obstinate man, properly speaking, is one who will not. The perseverance of the saints is positive willedness, not a mere passive willingness. The fates are wild, for they will; and the Almighty is wild above all, as fate is.

When we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.