So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.
A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.
Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.
What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.
Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.
The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.