The man who grounds his action on another’s cowardice, is essentially a coward himself.
He was in fact a poet without words, the more absorbed and endangered, that the springing waters were dammed back in his soul, where, finding no utterance, they grew, and swelled, and undermined.
We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down.
No; I’m not bad. But sometimes beautiful things grow bad by doing bad, and it takes some time for their badness to spoil their beauty. So little boys may be mistaken if they go after things because they beautiful.
All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come.
That is, we are responsible only for our actions, not for their results. Trust first in God, then in John Day.
Never, my little one, hide anything from those that love you. Never let anything that makes itself a nest in your heart, grow into a secret, for then at once it will begin to eat a hole in it.
Verily the God that knows how not to reveal himself, must also know how best to reveal himself! If there be a calling child, there must be an answering Father!
The only way to come to know where you are is to begin to make yourself at home.
He never married. But he wrote a good book.
Nobody knows what anything is; a man can only learn what a thing means!
And when heart and head go together, nothing can stand before them.
Where is the good of planning upon an “if?” To trust is to get ready, uncle says. Trust is better than foresight.
I can but pray the Father o’ a’ to haud his e’e upon her, an’ his airms aboot her, an’ keep aff the hardenin’ o’ the hert ’at despises coonsel!
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
There are women who fly their falcons at any game, little birds and all.
If you will not determine to be pure, you will grow more and more impure.
Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.