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

You may have to live in a crowd, but you do not have to live like it.

You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange.

Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my bees." Golden were the hives, and golden was the honey; golden, too, the music, Where the honey-makers hummed among the trees.

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

The Bible does not profess to make men omniscient, but simply to tell them enough to make them happy and good, if they will believe it and live up to it.

And you will remember that love is not getting, but giving; not a wild dream of pleasure, and a madness of desire — oh no, love is not that — it is goodness, and honour, and peace, and pure living — yes, love is that; and it is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives longest.