“The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.”
Best“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”
Nature“The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.”
Best“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.”
Gardening“And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.”
Strength“Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.”
Knowledge“We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.”
God“We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.”
Faith“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.”
Peace“When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.”
Death“In every parting there is an image of death.”
Death“Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.”
Truth“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”
History“In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.”
Wisdom“Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.”
Science“Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.”
Marriage“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.”
Good“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”
Anger“Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.”
Truth“The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.”
God“Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.”
Life“All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.”
Dad