The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.

The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows.

Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.

The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep to-night.

It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.

Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, The cry of an applauding multitude, Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields The living mass as if he were its soul!

These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end.

But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.

There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light.

The groves were God's first temples.

What we think is life. What we do just defines it.

I have found so much beauty in the dark, as I have found a lot of horror in the light.

Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.

When you have a hammer in your hand, everything around you starts looking like a nail.

Regular expository preaching of the Bible is the staple diet of a healthy church.

The history, the root, the strength of my father is the strength we now rest on.

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.

My Advice is: You always have to keep persevering.