Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

To Be is to live with God.

Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.

Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.

A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.