Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.

But there are not a few who would be indignant at having their belief in God questioned, who yet seem greatly to fear imagining Him better than He is.

Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value.

...though I cannot promise to take you home," said North Wind, as she sank nearer and nearer to the tops of the houses, "I can promise you it will be all right in the end. You will get home somehow.

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.