“Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy”

“The other day I chanced to meet An angry man upon the street A man of wrath, a man of war, A man who truculently bore Over his shoulder, like a lance, A banner labeled Tolerance.”

“God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.”

“A mother's hardest to forgive.Life is the fruit she longs to hand youRipe on a plate. And while you live,Relentlessly she understands you.”

“Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!”

“Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.”

“Do not allow yourself to be blinded by fear and anger. Everything is only as it is.”

“Never get angry. If you have to get angry, get angry at yourself and not at others.”

“And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.”

“When man will return to nature, nature will return to him.”

“The sky is an enormous man.”

“When the full-grown poet came,Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unr...”