As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky,It turns and turns to say "Good-by!Good-by, dear clouds, so cool and gray!"Then lightly travels on its way.
Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.
Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago.
Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill! All the spring is in her train, Led by shining ranks of rain; Pit, pat, patter, clatter, Sudden sun and clatter patter!. . . All things ready with a will, April's coming up the hill!
Ten years dropped from a man's life are no small loss; ten years of manhood, of household happiness and care; ten years of honest labor, of conscious enjoyment of sunshine and outdoor beauty; ten years of grateful life--one day looking forward to all this; the next, waking to find them passed, and a blank.
[On the Netherlands:] There is not a richer or more carefully tilled garden spot in the whole world than this leaky, springy little country.
An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
I have one regret, I wish I was a better father.
My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about God.
Leaders are those who empower others.