Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. |
Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs. |
Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor. |
Fire is the most tolerable third party |
For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself |
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation? |
For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever... |
For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it. |
Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody |
Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion. |
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams. |
Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith. |
Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure,-as if we lived on the marrow of koodoos devoured raw |
Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth. |
Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness. |