But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise.

How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half-sound, a half-whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of earth and all created things, in the great miracle of nature, decay and reproduction, ever beginning, never ending,--the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time.

But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

I am never indifferent, and never pretend to be, to what people say or think of my books. They are my children, and I like to have them liked.