The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also.

How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.

IT is reported of Margaret Fuller that she said she accepted the universe. "Gad, she'd better!" retorted Carlyle. Carlyle himself did not accept the universe in a very whole-hearted manner. Looking up at the midnight stars, he exclaimed: "A sad spectacle! If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be not inhabited, what a waste of space!"

In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.

The overall quantity of nuclear weapons in the world continues to decline slowly.

[Invading Iraq] is not the best way to make a safer world in which the United States would be a responsible partner, but it also goes against the role of law in the United States.