He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.
In a very real sense, we are the authors of our own lives.
As we begin to become aware of the narrative patterns around which we structure our lives, we learn how to take charge, revise, refine, and even completely rewrite them.
In a bouquet of mixed roses, most people can distinguish at a glance the delicacy of a tea rose from the voluptuousness of a cabbage rose, but how many could so readily differentiate between the tea rose's scent of freshly harvested tea and the spicy, honeylike, rich floral scent of the cabbage?
The first thing a man must do if he desires to be used in the Lord's work, is to make an unconditional surrender of himself to God.
Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.
To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.
All of us , I believe , carry about in our heads places and landscapes we shall never forget because we have experienced such intensity of life there :places where, like the child that 'feels its life in every limb' in Wordsworth's poem'We are seven' ,our eyes have opened wider, and all our senses have somehow heightened. By way of returning the compliment , we accord these places that have given us such joy a special place in our memories and imaginations. They live on in us, wherever we may be, however far from them.