To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.

Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.