'What is the Unpardonable Sin' asked the lime-burner 'It is a sin that grew within my own breast', replied Ethan Brand 'The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God'.

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.

Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.

Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town.