What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.
Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.
Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.
A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.