There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.

Time is a circus--always packing up and moving away.

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.

Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.

Sunwands turn rain droplets into blackberry drupelets as enkindled okra seeds acknowledge heliocracy.

Enough money to burn a wet dog.

O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-- Nature's observatory--whence the dell, In flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell, May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep 'Mongst boughs pavilion'd, where the deer's swift leap Startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell.

Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function. -John Pfeiffer.

Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for the National Guardsman who shot you.

Old Lady of Threadneedle Street.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him. Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; as long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down. God can do nothing while my interest is in my personal character--He will take care of this if I obey His call. In learning to love God and people as He commanded us to do, obviously your sanctification cannot but come, but not as an end in itself.

The Huntsman and the Fisherman A huntsman, returning with his dogs from the field, fell in by chance with a Fisherman who was bringing home a basket well laden with fish. The Huntsman wished to have the fish, and their owner experienced an equal longing for the contents of the game-bag. They quickly agreed to exchange the produce of their day's sport. Each was so well pleased with his bargain that they made for some time the same exchange day after day. Finally a neighbor said to them, If you go on in this way, you will soon destroy by frequent use the pleasure of your exchange, and each will again wish to retain the fruits of his own sport. Abstain and enjoy.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.

If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.