He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.

The peach-bud glows, the wild bee hums, and wind-flowers wave in graceful gladness.

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

When April steps aside for May, Like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten; Fresh violets open every day: To some new bird each hour we listen.

Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing.

Every true friend is a glimpse of God.

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

Be a true traveller, don't be a temporary tourist.

Enjoy life to the fullness.

You jealous souls are primeval without a doubt, Teach yourself to eat better instead of trying to eat one's heart out.

So, I'm no longer holding myself hostage to less than what I deserve. It's an inward thing first. It's always an inward thing first.

I'd love to go back to space, I don't know any astronaut who doesn't want to.

He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

A horse, if he happens to have a contemptuous disposition, can sneer very effectively.

The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.

We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error.