Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

The soul circumscribes all things.

This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.

The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.