It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.

Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth.

Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.