Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.

The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community

God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.

The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.