Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.

It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.

There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.

To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit or cowardice or mockery choosing another; to trust Him for our strength and fitness as the flowers do, simply giving ourselves back to Him in grateful service,—this is to keep the laws that give us the freedom of the city in which there is no longer any night of bewilderment or ignorance or uncertainty.

Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!

When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.

Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, - a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.