Our life is woven wind.

Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.

Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.