To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.

In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee.

Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me.

How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

It always seems to be raining harder than it really is when you look at the weather through the window.