One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

I am in love with this world. It has been my home. It has been my point of outlook into the universe. I have never bruised myself against it nor tried to use it ignobly.

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine, the celestial, the pure, in the common, the near at hand-to see that heaven lies about us here in this world.

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.

The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate.