Imagine how terrifying it would be if we had to decide the beginnings of things for ourselves: as to what race we should belong, what sex, and all that, instead of placidly coming out of unconsciousness to find it all arranged!

Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due?

in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.

even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring.

it is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background.

Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?

That is the stimulus of nature; it is never, never old, and always developing. Even the scarred, wrinkled earth herself is a mere infant among the old ladies and gentlemen that tread foot-paths in the sky.