I don't want to die. But I want to be dead.

O fateful flower beside the rill- The Daffodil, the daffodil!

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.

Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Crowds of bees are giddy with clover Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet, Crowds of larks at their matins hang over, Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.

Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.

The idea of a vision is revolutionary and ground breaking but achieving it may be back breaking.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.

The best-adjusted people are the ‘psychologically patriotic,’ who are glad to be what they are.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

The two great movements of our century -- towards Liberty of the individual and social co-operation of the whole community -- are summed up in Anarchist-Communism.

Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when dead.

But the suit I wear is my work attire, and nothing else.

Twelve people die every day because there aren't enough kidneys.

What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.