Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.

It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening.

There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between flowers of equal loveliness. ... The true anthologist has the greatest difficulty in finishing his book. There is always just one more, a new, delicious discovery.

it is the way of lovers to think that none can bless or succour their love but their own selves. And there is a touch of truth in it, maybe more than a touch.

It's the folks that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss.

Every time I meet a tree, if I am truly awake, I stand in awe before it. I listen to its voice, a silent sermon moving me to the depths, touching my heart, and stirring up within my soul a yearning to give my all.

For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.