Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.