The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
I wish these flies would piss off.
When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.
Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.