The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

We might miss the days of being unreachable.

Don't look around for the path you are meant to follow, forge it yourself.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’renot the first to die.

The only way you can become brave is, going through the fear but not going away from it.

Who says you’ll get hurt again?”I pouted. “Have you met you?” “Right.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

In life, the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end.

At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars.

If you can survive disappointment, nothing can beat you

I would that I were an old beggar Rolling a blind pearl eye, For he cannot see my lady Go gallivanting by.