The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

Great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. When sorrow is deepest all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood.

I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.

The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation. They have to be endlessly explained by the commentaries of individual lives, and they gain an added mystery in each new revelation.

In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan.

Life's aspirations come in the guise of children.