—Abraham Lincoln.
We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.
—Phillips Brooks.
Earth’s crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God.
—E. B. Browning.
Thoughts are forces: through their instrumentality we have in our grasp, and as our rightful heritage, the power of making life and all its manifold conditions exactly what we will.
—R. W. Trine.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
—Emerson.