Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.

Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.

Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.

A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.