Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition; They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins; They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God; Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things; Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago; Not one is responsible or industrious over the whole earth.

I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it.

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, / I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.