Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language - not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.

The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.

A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.