There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.

There is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating.

It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet.

If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is.

Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?

Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.

Father doesn't think very sudden, but he thinks awful strong.

Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.

Miranda Sawyer had a heart, of course, but she had never used it for any other purpose than the pumping and circulating of blood.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.

It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.

We know the Chinese have revealed millions of background information on millions of people in the United States, and these, I suppose, ultimately are part of international big-power politics.

Turn soft and lovely any time you have a chance

Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.

All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.

About 47 percent of able-bodied people in the state of Maine don’t work.

Thus we live, forever taking leave.

We must not confide in the armour of God, but in the God of this armour, because all our weapons are only mighty through God.