There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

The birth of Jesus is the sunrise in the Bible.

A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.

The shadow by my finger cast Divides the future from the past: Before it, sleeps the unborn hour, In darkness, and beyond thy power. Behind its unreturning line, The vanished hour, no longer thine: One hour alone is in thy hands,- The NOW on which the shadow stands.

No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.