God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.

Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.

Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the pane they are crookedly crawling, And the wind breathes low; Slowly the circles widen on the river, Widen and mingle, one and all; Here and there the slenderer flowers shiver, Struck by an icy rain-drop’s fall.

I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.

A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.

Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.