Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!
Peace is the wait of the patient soul.
One of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God.
And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.
perpetuity in a home is a blanket for the cold years that come with age.
Blessed be those souls who are glad! They are a salve for sorrow and fatigue. A sun in days of darkness, a joy in sorrow, a ray of heaven shining through the uncertainness of earth.
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Things are changing. They need to change more. It should not be of any note that a woman does something, because women do everything.
You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.
A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty.