I don't own an inch of land, but all I see is mine.

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.

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

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.

Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.

I still listen to tracks sometimes and hear some of the harmonies and its just amazing.

You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.

Never say [to younger people] "that was before your time," because the last full moon was before their time!

You don't want roast beef and Yorkshire every night and twice on Sunday.

Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?

[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.

The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

Failure cannot cope with persistence.