Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.

Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.

We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.