If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors.
In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.
The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea.
To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.
It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.
How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!
Noble discontent is the path to heaven.
The future is already won, and the more hostile the culture, the easier it is to communicate the difference of Christianity.
As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world of escape--fantasy; something to inject wonder and adventure into the mundane, regulated life of a middle-class boy leading a middle-class life.
In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual.
We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.