The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses.

The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses.

There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings.

To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I lived among, and their faithful everyday living, was poetry; blossoms and trees and blue shies were poetry. God himself was poetry.

Those who plant trees plant hope.

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.