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

The birth of Jesus is the sunrise in the Bible.

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.